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To Pacify Critics, Shuttle-Disaster Panel May Add Members.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003

By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 7--WASHINGTON--Amid calls for a presidential commission to investigate the Columbia accident, the chief of NASA said Thursday that more members might be added to its board of inquiry into the disaster.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr. was willing to add a broader range of people to the panel he heads. The agency Sunday named Gehman and six others to find out what caused the tragedy and propose ways to fix the problem.

But critics, including some members of Congress, question whether a group appointed by and reporting to O'Keefe could be completely impartial.

On Thursday, Democratic members of the House Science...

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