`Awareness' Benefits Safety

While the new MEDS glass cockpit is the most visible of major upgrades coming into the shuttle program, managers believe smaller incremental improvements have reduced the risk of vehicle and crew loss during ascent by 82% since about 1992. Ron Dittemore, shuttle program manager at Johnson Space...

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