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Outsiders Will Join Shuttle Disaster Probe; Board's Report Will Go to Public.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Sean Mussenden, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 19--WASHINGTON--NASA moved further Tuesday to mollify critics of the board appointed to investigate the Columbia disaster, granting it more freedom to recruit staff from outside the agency and ordering it to release its final report directly to the public.
The changes marked the third set of tweaks to the charter of the board headed by retired Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr. These follow weeks of criticism by some congressional lawmakers and members of the space community that the board is too close to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or agency head Sean O'Keefe to be objective.
The board, made up of military men or employees of NASA or...
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