T+D March 09 //Intelligence//
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NASA Retools Training Regimen
By Paula Ketter
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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