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Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the salt-in-the-wounds dept.

Uttini writes "NASA skipped some shuttle safety improvements as it tried to meet unrealistic launch dates for the first flight since the Columbia tragedy, some members of an oversight panel said in a scathing critique. Poor leadership also made shuttle Discovery's return to space more complicated, expensive and prolonged than it needed to be."

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  1. Budget by PacketScan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you are going to critize nasa to this extent lets look at the budget they are dealing with. For crying out loud they are creating masterpieces with peanuts. Of course there are going to be mistakes on a shoe string budget but hey who's to blame? That's for another story. For What nasa has accomplished i think everything that has happened wasn't in vein.