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NASA Repeatedly Ignored Safety Warnings, Accident Investigation Board Finds.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 29--During the 17 years between space-shuttle accidents, a succession of advisory groups sounded the alarm that NASA's safety systems and communications were slowly eroding.
Despite those repeated warnings, NASA often did little to heed them.
That point was driven home this week when the Columbia Accident Investigation Board blamed many of those same continuing problems for creating "blind spots" that helped doom the shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew.
In 1990, a General Accounting Office report warned that the safety offices at NASA field centers were not independent enough from the programs they were supposed to monitor.
Ten years later, the...
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