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This 5 page paper examines the future of NASA with a look at the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's findings. George Bush's vision for NASA is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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days at a time, and then quite often, new ventures for NASA are put on hold. There has always been argument as to the notion of space exploration and whether
it is vital or unnecessary. There are two points of view, one of which is that the explorations are just too expensive and money would be better spent on the
poor. The other side claims that much can be learned from exploration, as Christopher Columbus pointed out centuries ago. But then they are the disasters which to some extent impedes
progress, one of which was the Columbia space shuttle fiasco. An extensive report on the Columbian disaster put out by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) explores the incident
where in 2003, a shuttle was lost on its return to earth. Obviously, this is a significant problem. Why did it occur? The report concludes that the organizational culture had
just as much to do with the accident as the technical cause (CAIB, 2003). The most significant problem noted by CAIB is the fact that NASA had to operate
in a cost effective manner (CAIB, 2003). A significant problem then, as authors see it, is that the organizational culture, that had a budget and had to deal with cost
cuts, continued to have prolific ideas. It went ahead and implemented plans, but it did so on a lower budget than would likely be necessary to pull off such a
feat. In evaluating what went wrong, a large part of the goal is to make sure something like this never happens again. What did CAIB recommend? Throughout the report, there
are several recommendations. One for example is that there must be a commitment to safety and the creation of a safety culture (CAIB, 2003). This implies that it is not
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