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NASA's Computer Evaluations Have Long History with Shuttles, Officials Say.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Bruce Nichols, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 25--HOUSTON--Critics have questioned how it was used, but the computer program that helped NASA decide Columbia could land safely has been employed effectively since early in the space shuttle program, officials say.
"It's used in almost every instance where we have debris impact on launch," said Michael Mott, vice president-general manager of NASA systems for Boeing Co., which runs the program. "Any time we have a token amount of concern, we bring out all the big guns."
But the program, known as "crater," is only as good as the information fed into it and the quality of management evaluation after it reaches its conclusions, said Paul Fischbeck, a...
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