T+D March 09 //Intelligence//

 

NASA Retools Training Regimen

By Paula Ketter

Focus shifts to crew survival.

A recently released NASA report finds that the astronauts on the Columbia Space Shuttle were inadequately trained in crew survival. The 400-page report included more than 30 recommendations to improve the spacecraft’s design and crew safety.

On that fateful February day in 2003, as the Columbia crew prepared to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere, seven astronauts were tryin