The Challenger and Columbia Accidents
by
Julianne G. Mahler
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation...