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Commission Says NASA Failed on Shuttle Safety

Posted by timothy on from the spaceflight-so-far-not-perfectly-safe dept.

Tsalg writes "The final report from the Stafford-Covey Commission concludes that out of the 15 recommendations they made, the 3 toughest technically are not met. The news was not official on the return-to-flight website but has been widely commented elsewhere. Says one of the task members: "It is NASA's job -- not the task force's -- to determine whether the risks are acceptable and whether it's safe for Discovery to fly." The commission said risk remained that pieces of foam and ice could break off and hit the shuttle at lift-off. It also said the orbiter had not been sufficiently hardened and it lacked an in-flight repair system.Nasa has been aiming to launch shuttle Discovery as early as 13 July."

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  1. Next Story by p0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Next story on Slashdot would be

    France to Be Site of World's First Nuclear Fusion

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  2. What we need is the... by Dark+Coder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    RIGHT STUFF!

  3. to the critics of NASA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    shut up - we're now to the point that it takes us less than 30 months to go from explosion to our next launch - THAT is very impressive.

    So can the negativity, people.

  4. Re:BEWARE of retarded neighbors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Myself: And your trousers are gonna be full of my boot if you don't STFU.