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Top Ten: Questions and Answers About the Columbia Board Report
By Jim Banke
Senior Producer,
posted: 07:00 am ET
07 July 2003

8. What has the CAIB already said should be done?

To date the CAIB has officially released four findings and recommendations. They were put out ahead of the final report because the board had already agreed on the intent and wording, and by releasing them sooner than later NASA would be able to begin work on implementing them as soon as possible.

As it turned out, the space agency was already well into planning their execution of each of these as they were announced. Here's what the board has so far said needs to get done:

All four recommendations are considered "must do" before the shuttle can return to flight, but none should take long to implement. The NIMA deal is already signed, for example.

Next page: Vision of the future.

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