NASA had no idea that pieces of foam insulation were breaking off space shuttle fuel tanks so often at liftoff or that the hand-applied material was full of flaws, Columbia accident investigators say.
The chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board agreed today to reconvene his panel in a year to analyze NASA's efforts to increase the safety of the space shuttle. Ret. Navy Adm. Harold ...
WASHINGTON ? NASA?s overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed Columbia every bit as much as the chunk of foam that struck the shuttle with deadly force, investigators concluded Tuesday ...
A lax safety culture at NASA, in addition to organizational and funding problems, led to the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and the death of seven astronauts in February, investigators ...
Columbia investigator worried NASA won't change culture, allowing 'same faulty reasoning' to prevail
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Nobel Prize-winning member of the board investigating the space shuttle Columbia disaster says he fears NASA won't change its culture, possibly leading to yet another accident ...
A flaw in the system of explosive bolts that connect major components of the space shuttle had the potential to cause "catastrophic" damage and almost certainly will need to be fixed before the three ...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson called for The Wall Street Journal’s recent report on “secret” conversations between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin to be investigated.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - - Independent NASA accident investigators said the U.S. space agency should “perform a greater level of due diligence for major system components” in rockets that ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — If an International Space Station astronaut breaks her leg, there’s no ambulance service to the nearest X-ray machine more than 200 miles away on Earth. NASA Glenn Research Center in ...
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