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- initialism Columbia Accident Investigation Board, a panel investigating the 2003-02-01
LOVC of theSpace Shuttle Columbia.
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We implemented all the Return to Flight requirements recommended by the CAIB before my departure.
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Also, let's please remember that the CAIB report was clear: the Columbia disaster was caused by structural and cultural problems within NASA going back decades.
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CAIB page 210: Because of the risks inherent in the original design of the Space Shuttle, because that design was based in many aspects on now-obsolete technologies, and because the Shuttle is now an aging system but still developmental in character, it is in the nationʼs interest to replace the Shuttle as soon as possible as the primary means for transporting humans to and from Earth orbit.
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This CAIB-related document was so seriously flawed -- from their allegations to their inability to write simple, understandable sentences -- that it had to be rewritten.
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Someone should slap a copy of the CAIB report on his desk and remind him that it is this type of arrogance and deception that gets crews killed.
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Even within the Shuttle program, employees started omplaining that we threw the CAIB report out the window only 1 month after it was released.
Today's Video: You Know That This Still Happens Every Day - NASA Watch 2009
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The "report" you refer to, I presume is the CAIB report.
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Worked for the CAIB and witnessed, for the first time, the shocking reality of the inefficeincies and stupid, ego driven mistakes made at Nasa (killing seven people and destroying a vehicle costing as much as an aircraft carrier gets you fired everywhere else).
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The CAIB can sleep easy knowing everyone in the Shuttle Program Office now plays well together.
Today's Video: You Know That This Still Happens Every Day - NASA Watch 2009
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CAIB page 211: It is the view of the Board that the previous attempts to develop a replacement vehicle for the aging Shuttle represent a failure of national leadership.
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