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Political Expediency Propels
Columbia Disaster Investigation
YOWUSA.COM, 03-Aug-2003
Larry Park and Steve Russell
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) plans to release its final
report within the next few weeks. In it, the board will undoubtedly
conclude that the most probable cause of the accident was falling foam.
We will show that the CAIB’s original line of investigation was pointing
to something puzzling in the atmosphere during reentry.It seems that
once they realized the road this would take them on, they shifted their
focus primarily to fall-ing foam. The result is that NASA will put new
safety procedures into place to guard against foam, and the shuttle
will continue to fly. However, science has paid the price, and the window
of opportunity to gain more knowledge of the scientists jok-ingly refer
to as the “ignorosphere” (because they know so little about it) and
its interaction with Earth's energies is rapidly closing.
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