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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. Re:"Just a Spreadsheet" doesn't much matter by ray-auch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to mention that even if they HAD said "it's dead" there would have been NO POSSIBLE WAY to save the crew

    Reports on released emails say that NASA engineers would seem to disagree. Maybe you're better at spaceflight than they are...