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Likely Cause of Columbia Break-Up Disaster Coming, Space Official Says.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By Dan Feldstein, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 20--NEW ORLEANS--NASA should know the "most probable cause" of the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 30 to 40 days, a top space official said Wednesday.
Michael Kostelnik, deputy associate administrator in charge of the space station and space shuttle, made the comment at a conference planned long before Columbia's Feb. 1 accident. Ironically, the subject of the two-day meeting is the "service life extension program," which will examine how to keep shuttles flying for at least the next decade.
In a keynote speech, NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe said he does not expect an "aha! moment" for the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Instead, the cause will...
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