General Electric / Thiokol / Center’s Quality Laboratory / Marshall / Boeing / Morton-Thiokol / /
Event
Judicial Event / Product Issues / /
Facility
Center’s Quality Laboratory / NASA Headquarters / Huntsville Operations Support Center / Thiokol’s plant / /
IndustryTerm
possible metalto-metal contact / Media reports / poor communications / metal-to-metal fit / /
Organization
Spacelab Program Office / Defense Logistics Agency / Center’s Public Affairs Office / Reagan administration / Marshall Space Flight Center / Warren Commission / Rogers Commission / Some Center / Department of Justice / Public Affairs Office / Science and Engineering Directorate / Kennedy Space Center / Huntsville Operations Support Center / White House / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Center of Controversy After / Air Force / In commission / /
Person
James Webb / Wiley Bunn / Will Willoughby / Donald Regan / William P. Rogers / James Beggs / William Graham / Joseph F. Sutter / James Kingsbury / Shuttle / James R. Thompson / John W. Thomas / Keith Coates / Plume / Ronald Reagan / Bill Sneed / William Lucas / Judson Lovingood / Richard Feynman / /
Position
deputy manager of the Shuttle Projects office / deputy director of Shuttle / prosecutor / President / manager / Deputy Director Center / chief engineer / head / Secretary of State / engineer / Center Director / engine project manager / Chairman / Deputy Administrator / Chief of Staff / Director / Commissioner / Administrator / university research administrator / lawyer / head of quality office / President Ronald Reagan’s Chief of Staff / former deputy director / SRM chief engineer / /
THE RECOVERY: INVESTIGATION AND RETURN TO FLIGHT Chapter X The Recovery: Investigation and Return to Flight For every Shuttle launch, technicians in Marshall’s operations support Center