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"The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews." N. WAYNE HALE, deputy manager of nasa's space-shuttle program, on last week's never-before-attempted spacewalk to repair the shuttle Discovery's underside
ANATOMY OF A FLAW NASA spent more than two years and $1 billion to make sure that the accident that doomed Columbia in 2003 couldn't happen again. Despite assurances that it was safe to launch Discovery, several pieces of foam broke free during takeoff last week, forcing an embarrassed...
WHAT IS NEXT FOR AMERICA IN SPACE? An outsider commission is needed to investigate the Columbia accident--and must report to the President, not Congress, since Congress has shown itself unable to think about anything but pork barrel when it comes to space programs.
At Camp David. President Bush was in his cabin when chief of staff Andrew Card learned of the accident while channel-surfing. He phoned the President, who decided to return to the White House by motorcade. A grim Bush scheduled a conference call with the families for 12:45 and...
In the past year, hundreds of sufferers have contacted the Baltimore-based American Pain Foundation. "They've gone to every physician within hundreds of miles and can't get someone to prescribe to them," says executive director Will Rowe. In some cases, patients with high-dosage prescriptions are turned away...