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Columbia Space Shuttle Breaks Apart During Approach to Land Loss of 7
Columbia Explodes During Re-entry on Approach to Landing After Comple
Columbia Space Shuttle Exploded During Rentry from Mission to ISS

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230701 - Follow up ref SDS 4 0000, ref SDS 2 0000.
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230703 - Associated Press reported today....
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230706 -      Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Apart in Flames Ahead of Landing
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230709 - The catastrophe occurred 39 miles above the Earth, in the last 16
230710 - minutes of the 16-day mission, as the spaceship glided in for a
230711 - landing in Florida.  In its horror and in its backdrop of a crystal
230712 - blue sky, the day echoed one almost exactly 17 years before, when the
230713 - Challenger exploded. ref OF 1 P24G
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230715 -     On 921021 loss of the Challenger was discussed during a seminar at
230716 -     Cal Tech led by a project manager with JPL/NASA. ref SDS 1 4499
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230719 - Shortly after Columbia lifted off, a piece of insulating foam on its
230720 - external fuel tank came off and was believed to have hit the left wing
230721 - of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission
230722 - Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded any
230723 - damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard.
230724 - ref OF 1 P35F
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230727 - The spacecraft had just re-entered the atmosphere and had reached the
230728 - point at which it was subjected to the highest temperatures.
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230731 - NASA began the painstaking process of finding the cause, appointing an
230732 - independent commission to investigate. The agency said the first
230733 - indication of trouble Saturday was the loss of temperature sensors in
230734 - the left wing's hydraulic system.
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230737 -     On 020504 study shows professional standards for communication
230738 -     practices and requirements on good management specified in FAR,
230739 -     ISO, Health Care, Covey, Drucker, law, contract notice provisions,
230740 -     and 2,000 years of literacy for contemporaneous documentation for
230741 -     alignment and feedback to work intelligently, quickly, and
230742 -     accurately are ignored in government, business, health care, every
230743 -     sector. ref SDS 3 NS6F
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230745 -         [On 030202 Washington Post reports poor management and budget
230746 -         cuts may have contributed to loss of Columbia. ref SDS 5 0001
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230749 -         [On 030222 project correspondence following take-off show
230750 -         warnings about problems of re-entry. ref SDS 6 0001
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230753 -         [On 030222 analysis indicates ice may have damaged shuttle
230754 -         during take-off, rather than insulation, and this problem was
230755 -         known to require attention during preparations for the flight.
230756 -         ref SDS 6 KL6K
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230759 -         [On 030304 NASA management overwhelmed by information overload
230760 -         not enough time to think, analyse and understand email.
230761 -         ref SDS 7 0001
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230764 -         [On 030826 NASA management morphed and evolved into treating
230765 -         requirements as goals guidelines and suggestions for upper
230766 -         limits that would be nice to reach, rather than insisting on
230767 -         performance to approve payment and "go" and "no go" on flight
230768 -         status; denial fosters cultural transfomration that
230769 -         eviscerates all standards for good management in a race to the
230770 -         bottom. ref SDS 8 1G9L
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