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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/518
SUMMARY:Understanding the Columbia Shuttle Accident
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Douglass Osheroff\, Nobel Laureate\, Stanford Univers
	ity\nHosted by: David Bishop\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/posters/2012_Sp
	ring/MSE-Osheroff.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n
	\nAbstract: The NASA Space Shuttle program began in April\, 1981 and is sch
	eduled to end in May\, 2011. During this time NASA will have flown 134 miss
	ions. Nearly all of these missions have been flown successfully\, but two s
	pectacular disasters have blemished an otherwise perfect record. These\, of
	 course\, were STS 51L\, resulting in the Challenger Accident on January 28
	\, 1986 and STS-107\, the Columbia Accident on February 1\, 2003. I was a m
	ember of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board\, the 'CAIB'\, and in th
	is talk I will discuss the origins of this accident\, and the investigation
	 that resulted in a report showing that both accidents were organizational 
	in origin\, and that both could and should have been avoided. This is an in
	teresting talk\, as it gives the audience an insider's look at the investig
	ation of a spectacular accident. It has been most popular when given for la
	rge organizations\, as large organizations are more likely to suffer from t
	he deficiencies that led to both of these accidents.
LOCATION:PHO 205\, 8 Saint Mary's Street\, 02215
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