... National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Kennedy Space Center Story. Kennedy Space Center, 1974 Neal, Valerie, Cathleen Lewis, and Frank Winter. Smithsonian Guides: Space Flight. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1995 Needal, Allan. The First 25 Years in Space. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 1993 Snedden, Robert. 20th Century Inventions Rockets and Spacecraft. Austin: Steck- Vaughn Company, 1998 Walter, William. Space Age. New York: Random ... ...

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... did not go outside the chain of command. Other than honest ethical practices, they had a reason to be. Thiokol's first reaction to the disaster was to punish Roger Boisjoly and Allan McDonald, Director of Solid Rocket Motors. These two were the main culprits of presenting the contradicting launch evidence on the night before the launch and also the engineers who testified ... ...

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... became celebrities. In March of 1961 Ham the ape became the first American in space. In April of 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. On May 5th Allan Shepard became the second man in space. Werner von Braun who designed also the German V2 rocket designed the Saturn V rocket. It was one the most powerful types of rockets ... ...

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