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NASA Investigative Board to Present Significant Safety Recommendations.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2003

By Robyn Suriano, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 7--HOUSTON--Promising to frame a national debate on human spaceflight, members of the board investigating the shuttle Columbia disaster said Tuesday that they will make sweeping recommendations to improve NASA safety after the accident that killed seven astronauts on Feb. 1.

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board also endorsed NASA's current theory on why the orbiter disintegrated over Texas: A hole in the leading edge of its left wing allowed hot gases to eat into the wing's interior as Columbia re-entered the atmosphere.

Board chairman Harold Gehman Jr. cautioned that this theory might be changed "at any time in any way without notice." And he...

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