Outside panel warns Shuttle cuts have gone too deep for safety

An outside engineering panel established to review Space Shuttle processing and maintenance has issued a sharply worded technical report that warns downsizing for cost-cutting in spending on the program may have compromised safety. Headed by Henry McDonald, director of NASA's Ames Research Center...

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