Ethical Failures of NASA in the case of the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster

a) Use Diane Vaughan’s article "The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster: Conventional Wisdom and a Revisionist Account" on the Challenger shuttle as a starting point.

b) Examine the sources of failures of ethics and leadership.
c) Evaluate parallels of social and ethical causes of the Columbia and Challenger.

d) Need to identify sources on the Columbia crash including:
-Official Investigations
-Diane Vaughan’s analysis of the Columbia crash
Also need to evaluate the adequacy of each of these sources.

e) Also evaluate the Columbia incident from the context of:
-NASA and the Space Program
-The wider U.S. society and political/government system