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|Report to the President
        By the 
          PRESIDENTIAL 
          COMMISSION 
          on the Space Shuttle 
          Challenger Accident 
          June 6th, 1986 
          Washington, D.C. | Report to the President 
          Actions to Implement the Recommendations
          of the Presidential Commission 
          on the Space Shuttle 
          Challenger AccidentJuly 14, 1986 | Report to the President 
          IMPLEMENTATION 
          OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS 
          of the Presidential Commission 
          on the Space Shuttle 
          Challenger AccidentJune 1987
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|Chapter I    | Introduction.                                                                                                                                                        
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|Chapter II   | Events Leading

            Up to the Challenger Mission.                                                                                                        
|Chapter III  | The

            Accident.                                                                                                                                       
|Chapter IV   | The Cause of

            the Accident.                                                                                                                          
|Chapter V    | The

            Contributing Cause of the Accident.                                                                                                             
|Chapter VI   | An accident

            Rooted in History.                                                                                                                      
|Chapter VII  | The Silent

            Safety Program.                                                                                                                          
|Chapter VIII | Pressures on

            the System.                                                                                                                            
|Chapter IX   | Other Safety

            Considerations.                                                                                                                        
|             | Recommendations.

               

               The

               Commission.

               

               The

               Staff.







|Appendix E | Independent Test Team Report to

            the Commission.      
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|Appendix F | Personal Observations on

            Reliability of Shuttle.     
|Appendix G | Human Factors Analysis.                                               
|Appendix H | Flight Readiness Review Treatment

            of O-ring Problems.
|Appendix I | NASA Pre-Launch Activities Team

            Report.              
|Appendix J | NASA Mission Planning and

            Operations Team Report.    
|Appendix K | NASA Development and Production

            Team Report.         
|Appendix L | NASA Accident Analysis Team

            Report.                  
|Appendix M | Comments by Morton Thiokol on NASA

            Report.           







|Appendix N | NASA Photo and TV Support Team

         Report.                          
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|Appendix O | NASA Search, Recovery and

         Reconstruction Task Force Team Report.









Hearings of the Presidential Commission on the

Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: February 6, 1986 to February 25,

1986







Hearings of the Presidential Commission on the

Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: February 26, 1986 to May 2,

1986.