PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE HEARING #1, (ABBEY, YOUNG, WEITZ, CRIPPEN, HARTSFIELD), 4/3/86: SPACE SHUTTLE ACCIDENT. Part 1

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PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE HEARING #1, (ABBEY, YOUNG, WEITZ, CRIPPEN, HARTSFIELD), 4/3/86: SPACE SHUTTLE ACCIDENT. Part 1

1986

UNEDITED VIDEO REPORT: Participation by commission members Chairman William P. Rogers, Richard P. Feynman, Robert W. Rummel, Robert B. Hotz,Vice-Chairman Neil A. Armstrong, Eugene E. Covert. Testimonies of George W.S. Abbey, Director of Flight Crew Operations, Johnson Space Center (JSC);Captain John W. Young, United States Navy (USN), Chief, Astronaut Office,JSC; Captain Paul J. Weitz, USN, Deputy Chief, Astronuat Office,JSC;Commander Robert L. Crippen, USN, Deputy Director, Flight CrewOperationsDirectorate, JSC; and Lieutentant Colonel Henry (Hank) W.Hartsfield, United States Air Force (USAF), Astronaut Office, JSC. Introductions and professional backgrounds including education, training, and employment.Testimony on flight safety; organization and function of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate; flight, flight-crew preparation, and other duties of astronauts; whether there was too much work for the Astronaut Office in 1985; flow of information, especially the failure to alert the Astronaut Office to the potential seal and O-ring problems;processes of review and decision making and concerns that flight crew may be isolated from these processes during final weeks before launch and preparations up to and during the final count down.

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