USA: INVESTIGATORS PROBING COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER SAYS NASA FORGETS UNPREDICTABILITY OF SPACE MISSIONS

Record ID: 957953

  • Title: USA: INVESTIGATORS PROBING COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER SAYS NASA FORGETS UNPREDICTABILITY OF SPACE MISSIONS
  • Date: 11th July 2003
  • Summary: (U7) CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 16, 2003) (NASA - TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA LAUNCH 0.28 2. SLV CREW OF SHUTTLE COLUMBIA WALKING IN SPACE SUITS AND WAVING 0.50 (U7) WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JULY 11, 2003) (U.S. POOL - ACCESS ALL) 3. WIDE VIEW OF COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIVE BOARD BRIEFING 1.00 4. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) RETIRED ADMIRAL HAROLD GEHMAN, COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD CHAIRMAN, SAYING: "I would say that the board is convinced that coming, and going into orbit remains an enormously dangerous task. And even if you had the world's best engineers, and world's best managers working on this thing there's still a high degree of risk in what we're doing here. You've still got to - it's still not flying in a commercial airliner. It's not like taking a drive in your car. It's dangerous. It's very dangerous." 1.36 (U7) CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 16, 2003) (NBC - NO ACCESS CNN, USA, INTERNET, WIRELESS) 5. VARIOUS, OF FOAM HITTING WING OF SHUTTLE DURING LAUNCH 1.46 (U7) SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (JULY 7, 2003) (NBC - NO ACCESS CNN, USA, INTERNET, WIRELESS) 6. VARIOUS, FOAM SHOWN BURSTING THROUGH MOCK SHUTTLE WING PANEL DURING TEST 2.01 (U7) WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JULY 11, 2003) (U.S. POOL - ACCESS ALL) 7. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) RETIRED ADMIRAL HAROLD GEHMAN, COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD CHAIRMAN, SAYING: "It gets into the question of why didn't that alarm the engineers in the programme? That's kind of basic to our investigation. Yes, we were aware this is a dramatically larger piece of foam that came off, and this is way out of their experience yet they wanted to call it just another piece of foam." 2.24 (U7) JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 1, 2003) (NASA TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) 8. WIDE OF MISSION CONTROL DURING COLUMBIA MISSION 2.26 9. WIDE OF NASA STAFF CONTACTING COLUMBIA AT BEGINNING OF EN- ENTRY OF SPACE SHUTTLE 2.37 (U7) WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JULY 11, 2003) (U.S. POOL - ACCESS ALL) 10. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) DR. JOHN LOGSDON, COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD MEMBER, SAYING: "We are looking at issues beyond budget. We're looking at NASA's organisational culture, particularly the culture of its human space flight elements - the shared norms, the shared values, the belief system of those that are at one of only two places in the world that know how to put people into space, and we believe that that value set had some impact in how the organisation performed." 3.07 (U7) IN SPACE (FEBRUARY 1, 2003) (NASA - ACCESS ALL) 11. VARIOUS, COLUMBIA SHUTTLE CREW IN SHUTTLE BEGINNING RE-ENTRY TO EARTH (2 SHOTS) 3.26 (U7) NEAR ARLINGTON, TEXAS (FEBRUARY 1, 2003) (NBC - NO ACCESS CNN, USA, INTERNET, WIRELESS) 12. VARIOUS, STREAKS IN SKY WITH SHUTTLE COLUMBIA BREAKING UP DURING RE-ENTRY 3.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA; WASHINGTON, D.C.; SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS; HOUSTON, TEXAS; NEAR ARLINGTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES AND SPACE
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