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Shuttle Assessment Tool was Inferior

Posted by michael on from the you-can-do-a-lot-with-a-spreadsheet dept.

An anonymous reader writes " Shuttle report in Houston Chronicle: 'The computer program Boeing engineers used to predict that a debris-damaged Columbia could land safely wasn't much more than a simple chart of past foam damage, accident investigators said Tuesday.'"

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  1. Yeah by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shuttle report in Houston Chronicle: 'The computer program Boeing engineers used to predict that a debris-damaged Columbia could land safely wasn't much more than a simple chart of past foam damage, accident investigators said Tuesday.'

    In other news, the Houston-based ContractorCorp announced its new, $20 million-dollar-a-license aerospace disaster analysis software...

    Also today, President Bush vowed that "no cost would be spared" to identify that shuttle problem that "struck such a tragic blow to our nation's future"...

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    May we never see th