Selected congressional hearings and reports from the Challenger space shuttle accident
Language: eng
Subjects: Accidents; Space vehicle accidents; Challenger (Spacecraft); Apollo 13 (Spacecraft)
Description: "On February 1, 2003, NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart while returning to Earth from a 16-day science mission in orbit. Following the tragedy, a series of congressional hearings were held, including a joint hearing between the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Science Committee (February 12); and a House Science Committee hearing on implications of the Columbia accident on NASA programs and budget (February 27). The following publications were assembled for Congress as background materials for these hearings. Documents are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)."
Notes: Viewed on (Mar. 3, 2006).