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Columbia Tragedy; Weather ripe for icy debris; NASA culture muted danger signals; NASA's system misjudged risk
A six-week investigation into the Columbia space shuttle, which exploded on Feb. 1, 2003. The investigation found, among other things, that conditions at the launch pad were perfect for ice and moisture accumulation and that NASA launched the shuttle although it had over 1,600 known problems.
Tags: FOIA; NASA; Challenger; Kennedy Space Center
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Columbia's Last Flight
The Atlantic Monthly tells the inside story of the Columbia space shuttle disaster and the investigation that followed it. With access to key figures and evidence at NASA and the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, the story provides an insight from different perspectives: the personal, the institutional, the concrete, the abstract, the emotional and the political. Finally, the report reveals deep flaws in NASA's oversight of Columbia's last flight.
Tags: Hal Gehman; Kennedy Space Center; Rick Husband; Fred Gregory
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CNN series describes Project Paperclip, under which the U.S. military brought Nazi scientists to the United States, then changed their records to conceal evidence of their war crimes; one of these Nazis became the first director of the Kennedy Space Center, and others also worked at NASA.
Tags: Hunt Project Paperclip; NASA SS coverup; Nazis; World War II; war criminals; FOIA