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Director who led Marshall Space Flight Center during Challenger disaster dead at 102

President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the loss of the Challenger. The Rogers Commission report of June 6, 1986, faulted both NASA as a whole and the Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as contractor Morton Thiokol Inc., over lapses in engineering and management.

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Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102

The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the ...

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William Ray Lucas, ex-director of NASA center that shouldered much of the blame of Challenger explosion, dead at 102

William Ray Lucas led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

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