The fatal Challenger explosion of Jan. 28, 1986 was in the mind of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which noted similar organizational difficulties at NASA that contributed to the two ...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, as it was later known, later released a multi-volume report on how the shuttle was destroyed, and what led to it.

Along with recommended technical and management changes, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told NASA it must "conduct a vehicle recertification at the material, component, subsystem, and ...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board found numerous safety shortcomings with NASA's Space Shuttle program. For example, tests of the reinforced carbon-carbon system were deemed inadequate in ...

The hard-hitting final report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, released on Tuesday in Washington DC, makes one thing abundantly clear: the accident was caused in large part by ...

Following Columbia, Admiral Harold Gehman was charged to lead the CAIB, and because of his leadership, it resulted in one of the most thorough and open accident investigations in U.S. history.

The White House and Congress must share some blame for the space shuttle accident that killed seven astronauts, the chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board said Thursday. Ret. Navy ...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board's (CAIB) final report will contain a section in which board members will express "a sense of urgency" over NASA's need to develop a replacement for the ...

This identification badge marked its wearer as participating in the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which determined the direct and indirect causes of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia ...