Sources list for FACTORS THAT LED UP TO THE COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER

Columbia was the first NASA space shuttle launched in 1981, followed by the Challenger (1982), Discovery (1983) and Atlantis (1985)
Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

Rogers Commission, "Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident," (Volume IV - Hearings of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: February 6, 1986 to February 25, 1986), http://history.nasa
Space Shuttle - Unsafe at Any Cost?

Korsmeyer DJ, Schreiner JA. (March, 2001). Assessment of the NASA Space Shuttle Program's problem reporting and corrective action system: a general summary of The PRACA Pilot Study Assessment for the Space Shuttle Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Techn
Columbia and NASA

Lee L Lowery, jnr, The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, undated, accessed from http://ethics.tamu.edu/ethics/shuttle/shuttle1.htm on 11 August 2003 [Department of Philosophy and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University]
The Destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger

"Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident." (1986)
Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster