- Cabbage, Michael and William Harwood. Comm Check…The
Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia. New York: Free Press,
2004. ISBN 0-7432-6091-0.
- This is an excellent account for the general reader of
the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 accident and subsequent
investigation. The authors are veteran space reporters: Cabbage
for the Orlando Sentinel and Harwood for CBS News.
If you've already read the Columbia Accident Investigation Board
Report (note that
supplementary volumes II through VI are now available), you
won't learn anything new about the technical details of the
accident and its engineering and organisational causes here,
but there's interesting information about the dynamics of the
investigation and the individuals involved which you won't find
in the formal report. The NASA Implementation Plan for
Return to Flight and Beyond mentioned on page 264 is available online.
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