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House Democrat Asks for Less NASA Influence on Shuttle Accident Probe.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 8--WASHINGTON--The highest-ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee that oversees space policy asked President Bush again Friday to direct that the board investigating the Columbia accident report to the White House, not NASA.
The letter to Bush extended criticism that the board, whose members were appointed by NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, is too close to the agency to be objective.
Retired Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., who oversaw the probe into the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole, is heading the investigation.
Despite minor concessions from the agency on Thursday, including making room for a broader range of members to be added to the...
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