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Outsiders Dominate NASA's Safety Team.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003
By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 19--WASHINGTON -- Nearly two months after its members resigned in the face of criticism, a revamped Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel was announced Tuesday by NASA.
Only one of the nine members who resigned in late September -- retired Adm. Walt Cantrell -- is on the new panel, the space agency's main external watchdog. The other eight are drawn from a broad range of backgrounds, from a Georgia Tech engineering professor to DuPont's director of safety and health.
The previous panel, which was created by Congress in the wake of the 1967 Apollo 1 launchpad fire, dissolved itself after being criticized for not being influential enough to prevent the loss...
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