NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases Annual Report

“The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, has released its 2007 Annual Report. The report examines NASA’s safety performance and advises the agency on ways to better that performance.”

NASA safety panel worries about moon ship design, AP

“NASA is not properly emphasizing safety in its design of a new spaceship and its return-to-the-moon program faces money, morale and leadership problems, an agency safety panel found Monday. The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel cited “surprising anxiety among NASA employees” about the Constellation moon program and said the project “lacks clear direction.” Its 143-page annual report specifically faulted the agency’s design of the Orion crew capsule for not putting safety features first.”

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