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Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 around 11 pm mountain time

I just finished reading nearly 400 pages of NASA’s Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report (pdf, 16mb) released today. There are two things I’m certain of: NASA has some incredibly smart people working for them and those seven astronauts aboard Columbia lived through hell before dying from one of five possible “lethal events.”

The worst parts are the one hundred-plus pages dedicated to the crew protection recovery where the report outlines, in one example, NASA recovered fifty three pieces of boots. Only fourteen boots — two per astronaut — flew on STS-107.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 11 pm and is filed under links, news, space.

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