Board Recommendations
The board made 29 specific recommendations to NASA to improve the safety of future shuttle flights. These recommendations include:
- Foam from external tank should not break free
- Better pre-flight inspection routines
- Increase quality of images available of shuttle during ascent and on-flight
- Recertify all shuttle components by the year 2010
- Establish an independent Technical Engineering Authority that is responsible for technical requirements and all waivers to them, and will build a disciplined, systematic approach to identifying, analyzing, and controlling hazards throughout the life cycle of the Shuttle System.
Only two further Space Shuttle missions were allowed to be flown before the implementation of these recommendations.
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