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NASA chief vows to make changes set out in report

August 22, 2019 at 5:21 p.m.

WASHINGTON - NASA's chief promised yesterday to lead a complete personality overhaul of the space agency, where investigators found communication problems and unyielding bureaucracy played heavily into the shuttle Columbia...

Shuttle board promises broad safety proposals

August 22, 2019 at 5:20 p.m.

HOUSTON - Promising to frame a national debate on human space flight, members of the board investigating the shuttle Columbia disaster said yesterday that they will make sweeping recommendations to...

Shuttle investigators alter theory on object

August 22, 2019 at 5:19 p.m.

HOUSTON -- Investigators are looking at new scenarios for how hot gases entered shuttle Columbia's left wing, causing it to disintegrate over Texas on Feb. 1. Contrary to previous analyses,...

Shuttle data hint crew saw trouble

August 21, 2021 at 3:10 a.m.

A new NASA timeline offers a conflicting glimpse inside shuttle Columbia's cockpit, where some data indicate the astronauts may have tried to take the ship off autopilot and fly manually...

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