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Critics Point to NASA's Risk-Taking.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 4--As investigators examine how NASA assessed the danger of insulating foam slamming into Columbia's wing during launch, broader questions are being raised about the agency's attitude toward risk and its ability to fully analyze the dangers of flying its shuttle fleet.
For years, space experts have criticized National Aeronautics and Space Administration managers for growing too accepting of risk and not fully considering them in decision-making. And they have complained that NASA has been too slow to develop a good system for determining the odds of things going wrong -- even after the 1986 Challenger explosion illustrated that such calculations were needed.
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