The Nation - News from April 21, 1986
Rocket engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida worked to disassemble a shuttle solid-fuel booster to look for anything unusual that might shed insights into whether assembly problems played a role in the Challenger disaster. Two boosters that had been scheduled for use in May with the shuttle Atlantis are the target of the investigation. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman James Ball said engineers expected the examination to last about two weeks.
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