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	Spaceflight Now \| Columbia Accident Investigation Board \| Report Synopsis
		We considered it unlikely that the accident was a random event; rather, it was likely related in some degree to NASA's budgets, history, and program culture, as well as to the politics, compromises, and changing priorities of the democratic process.
		In Chapter 3, the Board analyzes all the information available to conclude that the direct, physical action that initiated the chain of events leading to the loss of Columbia and her crew was the foam strike during ascent.
		The Board concludes in Chapter 4 that despite certain fault tree exceptions left "open" because they cannot be conclusively disproved, none of these factors caused or contributed to the accident.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /columbia/report/011synopsis.html (2345 words)

	Columbia Accident Investigation Board Releases Final Report
		The Board determined that physical and organizational causes played an equal role in the Columbia accident - that the NASA organizational culture had as much to do with the accident as the foam that struck the Orbiter on ascent.
		The Board crafted the report to serve as a framework for a national debate about the future of human space flight, but suggests that it is in the nation's interest to replace the Shuttle as soon as possible as the primary means for transporting humans to and from Earth orbit.
		The Board's conviction regarding the importance of these factors strengthened as the investigation progressed, with the result that this report, in its findings, conclusions, and recommendations, places as much weight on these causal factors as on the more easily understood and corrected physical cause of the accident.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/shuttle-03zb.html (968 words)

	Columbia accident board casts wide net of blame \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		Getty ImagesHarold Gehman, chief of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, speaks at the release of the final report on the cause of the disaster.
		Early in the investigation, board members wrestled with how strongly to link the accident to a piece of foam fuel tank insulation that peeled away and slammed against the underside of the left wing's leading edge after launch.
		Investigators later determined the management team missed eight opportunities during the flight to look for damage and possibly initiate repair or rescue efforts.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/space/columbia/2068023.html (1482 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Columbia Accident Investigation Board \| Board Statement
		The Columbia Accident Investigation Board was established within two hours of the loss of signal from the returning spacecraft in accordance with procedures established by NASA following the Challenger accident 17 years earlier.
		Too often, accident investigations blame a failure only on the last step in a complex process, when a more comprehensive understanding of that process could reveal that earlier steps might be equally or even more culpable.
		With the support of these constituents, the Board resolved to broaden the scope of the accident investigation into a far-reaching examination of NASA's operation of the Shuttle fleet.
	spaceflightnow.com /columbia/report/006boardstatement.html (918 words)

	Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report, Executive Summary - News
		The board recognized early on that the accident was probably not an anomalous, random event, but rather likely rooted to some degree in NASA's history and the human space flight program's culture.
		Accordingly, the board broadened its mandate at the outset to include an investigation of a wide range of historical and organizational issues, including political and budgetary considerations, compromises, and changing priorities over the life of the Space Shuttle Program.
		These recommendations reflect both the board's strong support for return to flight at the earliest date consistent with the overriding objective of safety, and the board's conviction that operation of the Space Shuttle, and all human spaceflight, is a developmental activity with high inherent risks.
	www.thepittsburghchannel.com /news/2433760/detail.html (563 words)

	SPACE.com -- Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report Excerpts
		Columbias failure to return home is a harsh reminder that the space shuttle is a developmental vehicle that operates not in routine flight but in the realm of dangerous exploration.
		Columbia was not optimal for Station flights the Orbiter could not carry enough payload but it was assigned to this flight because Discovery was scheduled for 18 months of major maintenance.
		The Boards work over the past seven months has been motivated by the desire to honor the STS-107 crew by understanding the cause of the accident in which they died, and to help the United States and indeed all spacefaring countries to minimize the risks of future loss of lives in the exploration of space.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/caib_details_030826.html (5707 words)

	Report Says NASA Culture Played Major Role in Columbia Accident, August 26, 2003
		The 13-member board, which on August 26 released its 248-page final report on the causes of the shuttle accident, also concluded that while the present space shuttle system of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is not "inherently unsafe," a number of mechanical fixes are required to make the shuttle safer in the short-term.
		The board said NASA's failings were due in part to a lean budget and other pressures, such as the need to build an international space station, and called for a national debate about the future of human space flight.
		In Chapter 3,the Board analyzes all the information available to conclude that the direct, physical action that initiated the chain of events leading to the loss of Columbia and her crew was the foam strike during ascent.
	www.usembassy.it /file2003_08/alia/a3082703.htm (3164 words)

	News From Space - Columbia Investigation Journal Part 2
		The CAIB does not feel that the loss of a few tiles would be enough to cause the Shuttle disaster.
		As the search for Space Shuttle Columbia debris continues, NASA working groups and the independent Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, are poring over flight data that was downlinked by the orbiter during its last minutes.
		The CAIB said heat transfer through the structure, such as might be caused by a missing tile, would not be sufficient to cause the temperature indications seen in the last minutes of flight.
	www.newsfromspace.com /columbia/columbia-2.htm (2076 words)

	News From Space - Columbia Investigation Journal Part 4
		In Houston, Texas, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, held a press briefing at the Lunar Planetary Institute for Advanced Space Studies.
		Columbia debris is being reassembled for analysis (not like rebuilding it, just arranging the wreckage to see if any patterns are visible).
		Accident investigators are not the only people studying data from Space Shuttle Columbia.
	www.newsfromspace.com /columbia/columbia-4.htm (2049 words)

	Shuttle board to meet again in a year - The Columbia Tragedy - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gehman said the board considered the very issues posed by Barton and concluded that, although it’s risky, the shuttle could be operated with people on board for at least two more years.
		The investigators determined that the accident was caused by a hole in the shuttle’s thermal protection panels that allowed superheated gases to destroy the wing.
		The hole was punched in the panels by the high-speed collision with a piece of foam insulation during Columbia’s launch.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3077533 (807 words)

	CNN.com - Board chairman: Shuttle design safe - Aug. 26, 2003
		And if this board has any impact whatsoever, we felt that the loss of their lives had better make a difference, or both them and us have wasted our time.
		Next, I think I speak confidently for the board in which we can state a conclusion that the space shuttle is not inherently unsafe, and that this board was under no pressure to say anything to the contrary.
		The board however is concerned that over a period of a year or two the natural tendency of all bureaucracies, not just NASA, to morph and migrate away from that diligent attitude is a great concern to the board, because the history of NASA indicates they have done it before.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/space/08/26/sprj.colu.transcripts (1196 words)

	Shuttle Board May Open Files for Congress
		WASHINGTON, June 3 — Congress is close to reaching an agreement with the commission investigating the Columbia space shuttle accident that could provide access to secret testimony concerning the disaster, the chairman of the House Committee on Science said today.
		Boehlert said negotiators were "now in the process of dotting i's and crossing t's" on an agreement for Congress to examine all of the testimony obtained by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, a 13-member group led by Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., who is retired.
		Boehlert said that despite early concerns that the investigations board, appointed by NASA, would not be independent enough to conduct an objective study, the group had proved to be able and autonomous.
	foi.missouri.edu /federalfoia/shuttleboard.html (470 words)

	NASA investigation board bursts into flames
		While many questions remain as to the cause of the explosion, NASA officials said that poor ventilation in the CAIB's meeting room combined with the unseasonably hot and humid weather conditions may have caused the board to burst into flames.
		At the time of the disaster, the investigative board was only hours away from completing the final report's amendments and convening until further notice.
		The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Accident Investigation Board inspects the recovered remains of the board's meeting room conference table.
	www.recoilmag.com /news/nasa_bursts_into_flames_1003.html (535 words)

	Columbia Accident Investigation Board - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) was convened by NASA to investigate the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003.
		In addition to determining the cause of the accident, the panel also recommended changes that should be made to increase the safety of future shuttle flights.
		Sally Ride, served on both the CAIB panel and Rogers Commission and noted remarkable similarities between the two tragedies; why was the shuttle allowed to continue to fly with known problems that were, eventually, catastrophic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Columbia_Accident_Investigation_Board (742 words)

	The Space Review: The Gehman Board (page 1)
		I was privileged to be part of the CAIB investigation and watched Admiral Gehman lead dozens of investigation meetings both in Houston and later in the Washington area, where the Board moved to begin writing the final report.
		Midway through the investigation one of the civilian scientists remarked that the four groups reflected the cultures that their members came from, and it was true.
		He quickly decided that he would not conduct the Columbia investigation in the same manner and that our final report would be more comprehensive and better written.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/314/1 (1288 words)

	Comment on Columbia Accident Investigation Board's Report
		We join with Dr. John Logston, member of the CAIB who said "believing that the shuttle was a mature system, NASA turned a lot of its operations over to a single contractor.
		The past disasters connected to Oxygen, O-rings and foam were widely separated events and clearly independent, the number of experiments that are done within the Shuttle or Space Station are many from all over the world yet none have destroyed a vehicle.
		From the CAIB Press Conference, member Wallace reported "Foam was coming off the orbiter from the very first mission.
	mesa.msfc.nasa.gov /CAIB_response.html (594 words)

	MIT researchers played major roles in Columbia accident investigation; cited widely in media - MIT News Office
		MIT researchers played significant roles in the investigation of the space shuttle Columbia accident, by serving on the board that released a final report on the breakup earlier this week and conducting research that gave insights into exactly what happened.
		Widnall appointed to accident board - Professor Sheila E. Widnall, an expert in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, has been appointed to NASA's Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
		Tragedy can teach engineers - One of the lessons from the Columbia shuttle accident last February is that engineers should take more responsibility for system-level issues, says an MIT professor.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2003/columbia.html (447 words)

	Justice: Managing Documents in the Columbia Accident Investigation - Lockheed Martin Aspen Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Following the tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003, NASA and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) established the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) to investigate the cause of the accident.
		Within 6 months, CAIB was able to deliver a thorough and forthright account of the Columbia accident and respond to intense media scrutiny.
		Information from the databases was used to prepare CAIB's accident investigation report, which was issued in August 2003, and additional appendixes to the report, which were distributed in October 2003.
	www.aspensys.com /justice/justice_caib.html (535 words)

	Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite some initial fears after announcement in the news that Columbia suffered explosion over Palestina(Texas) and that the addition of the first Israeli astronaut to the crew had made the Columbia a more likely target for terrorists, there is no evidence to support any theory that terrorism was involved.
		Buildings or classrooms were named in honor of Columbia crewmembers at the Florida Institute of Technology, Creighton University, and the Columbia Elementary school in the Brevard County School District.
		Less than a year after the accident, President Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration, calling for the retirement of the space shuttle fleet following the completion of the International Space Station and the development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster (5349 words)

	Columbia Accident Investigation Board Releases Working Scenario
		On the morning of February 1, Columbia entered with unknown damage to an RCC panel or T-seal in the left wing RCC panel 5-9 area.
		Columbia's flight control system began to sense increased drag on the left wing due to the damage at 8:52:05 EST.
		The CAIB has not reached any final conclusions and has not determined the cause of the loss of the shuttle and crew.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/shuttle-03q.html (1059 words)

	UCR Library Website : Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report
		The Columbia Accident Investigation Board website presents reports, press briefings, and other information from the Board investigating the cause of the February 1, 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident.
		The Board investigated the cause of the February 1, 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident.
		The report posted on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's website, along with other information from and about the Board.
	lib.ucr.edu /depts/govpub/columbia.php (113 words)

	CBS News - Breaking News Headlines and Video from CBSNews.com
		Insulation that came loose from Columbia during liftoff could have damaged heat tiles that were vital to the craft during re-entry.
		An Air Force accident investigator who served on the space shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board says the final report doesn't go far enough, and some of its recommendations should be requirements.
		The head of a panel set up to track NASA's response to an upcoming report on the Columbia accident says the space agency may not have time to fix management problems before shuttles return to the skies.
	www.cbsnews.com /sections/columbia/main500258.shtml (462 words)

	Columbia Accident Investigation Board report - Science - theage.com.au
		Later analysis showed that the larger piece struck Columbia on the underside of the left wing...
		-The physical cause of the loss of Columbia and its crew was a breach in the Thermal Protection System on the leading edge of the left wing.
		The Board is not convinced that NASA has completely lived up to the bargain, or that Congress and the Administration has provided the funding and support necessary for NASA to do so.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/27/1061663828047.html (590 words)

	NASA - Columbia - help
		These counties may contain materials that came off the shuttle before the breakup occurred, which could be important to the accident investigation.
		All debris is United States Government property and is critical to the investigation of the shuttle accident.
		In order to complete the accident investigation, NASA asks that any persons with photographs or video footage call the Johnson Space Center Emergency Operations Center, (281) 483-3388 or send e-mail.
	www1.nasa.gov /columbia/help (424 words)

	Space Shuttle Columbia STS 107 \| SpaceRef - Space News As It Happens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As the investigation continues into the Columbia tragedy please use the following link to view updates as they happen.
		Statement on Columbia Loss: We are United in Grief and Determination- STA
		Space Shuttle Columbia broke up as it reentered Earth's atmosphere this morning as it was over Texas - the crew is lost.
	www.spaceref.com /Columbia (629 words)

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