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Internal Communication At NASA

NASA has announced the formation of a team to explore how internal communication failures may have played a role in the Space Shuttle Columbia accident. Specifically:

Former NASA official Henry McDonald ... who headed a shuttle study three years ago ... and his panel found that top-level managers were not told of all potential problems or the rate at which they were occurring ... McDonald noted that the same type of communication breakdown he warned about seems to have hindered engineers who evaluated damage to Columbia's wing and concluded the shuttle and its astronauts were safe.
You can read the ABCNEWS.com story here.

Posted by Alan Nelson on March 10, 2003 01:59 PM |

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