The reporting of the activity surrounding the tragic loss of Columbia continues to anger me (“After the Tragedy,” SN: 9/27/03, p. 203: After the Tragedy). Columbia was lost because of program ignorance of a flight condition that should not have been permitted to exist or continue. It is a cruel and self-serving action to criticize a wonderful piece of engineering because its operators have been deficient.
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