In 2003, after sitting on a shuttle-disaster panel for the second time, Dr. Ride said in an interview with The Times that part of the problem at NASA was that people had forgotten some of the lessons learned from the Challenger accident.
Poor communications, complacency and numerous missteps contributed to the disaster, the panel said.
A6 NATIONAL A20-28 Panel Cites Hole in Skin As Shuttle Disaster Cause The panel investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia said a hole developed in its aluminum skin, allowing superheated gas to flow into the left wing and cause the ship's destruction.
Only good fortune and makeshift measures to pump or spray water into all the spent fuel pools averted that disaster, the academy panel notes.
We first met at an American Association for the Advancement of Science panel on disaster plans for near-Earth events, asteroid collisions.
The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster", a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report.
Here's a roundup of recent criticism and commentary on Climategate and the IPCC, organized by five issues: 1) "glaciergate," 2) African crops, 3) disaster losses, 4) whether panel head Rajendra Pachauri has too many conflicts of interest to run the IPCC, and 5) the future of the panel.
The violations included several for improper ventilation, one of the causes of the disaster according to the panel investigating the accident.
In 2001, a consensus panel of disaster medicine experts strongly recommended that education on disasters should be formalized and evidence-based and that evaluation of education and interventions must be improved [ 6].
PAGE A12 New Shuttle Tests Sought The board investigating the Columbia disaster wants new tests on the panels that protect the shuttle's wings during re-entry.
