Sentence examples for shuttles safer from inspiring English sources

A year after investigators concluded that the space shuttle Columbia was lost because of a damaged wing and a flawed approach to safety at NASA, agency officials said Thursday that they had made significant progress in making shuttles safer and changing the way they do business.

Should it aim to build the safest possible rocket, at great cost, or is a rocket that is cheaper and still considerably safer than the space shuttles safe enough?

He said work must continue to make the shuttle safer.

The idea is to install safeguards against mistakes instead of laying blame, said Dr. James Bagian, the astronaut and physician who is credited with installing escape hatches to make the space shuttle safer and is now trying to make the veterans' health system safer.

Dr. Griffin, a space scientist and engineer who took over the agency in April, said NASA had done everything in its power to make the shuttle safer and more reliable since the loss of the Columbia and its seven crew members on Feb. 1, 2003.

And nearly everyone — including some of the police officers charged with keeping the shuttle safe — had a camera perpetually pointed toward the spacecraft, making it impossible to walk anywhere without ruining a photograph.

The pressure to reach a key milestone for the assembly of the international space station conflicted with NASA's need to keep the shuttle safe.

"We are assuming roller coasters with speeds over 100 miles per hour and G-forces higher than the space shuttles are safe for our children, rather than testing them and proving they are safe before we use them for entertainment".

NASA officials say that the shuttle is safer than it has ever been because of changes made after the Columbia accident in February 2003, and they have long acknowledged that not all debris risk can be eliminated.

Seven of the 25 voting members of the group that monitored NASA's progress in making the space shuttle fleet safer after the loss of the Columbia issued a blistering minority report yesterday accusing the space agency's leadership of compromising safety to justify returning to flight.

"We have to make sure the shuttle is safe and the public is safe".