美國哥倫比亞號太空梭失事調查報告

請參閱 美國太空總署網站Please refer to http://www.nasa.gov/news/reports/index.html

失事調查的目的是防止類似的意外再次發生而非責怪任何人.The purpose of aircraft accident investigation is to prevent the similar accidents from happening again. It is not to blame anyone. 美國哥倫比亞號太空梭失事調查報告指出未來努力的方向,例如如何使得未來太空船更能生存的方法,其中包括有太空衣,限制措施與頭盔的問題. The U.S. Columbia Space Shuttle Accident Investigation has pointed out the efforts we have to make. For instance, The point of the 400-page analysis is to figure out how to make NASA's next spaceship more survivable. The report targeted problems with the spacesuits, restraints and helmets of the Columbia crew........The NASA study team is recommending 30 changes based on Columbia, many of them aimed at the spacesuits, helmets and seatbelts for both the shuttle and the next space capsule NASA is building. Since the accident, NASA has quietly made astronauts put more priority on getting their protective suits on, Melroy said.....NASA's suits don't automatically pressurize, "a basic problem of suit design and it is one we intend to fix with future spacecraft".....The report lists events that were each potentially lethal to the crew: Loss of cabin pressure just before or as the cabin broke up; crew members, unconscious or already dead, crashing into objects in the module; exposure to a near vacuum at 100,000 feet; and crashing to the ground....

期待未來2009年將是一個零失事率的一年.