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NASA to Release 500 Columbia-Related E-Mails
By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 04:05 pm ET
28 March 2003
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WASHINGTON -- NASA plans to release 500 pages of e-mails relating to Columbia's final mission. The e-mails, most of which were written by Johnson Space Center employees, capture a wide range of discussions about STS-107, from requests for spy satellite imagery and concerns about tank debris, to other technical issues -- such as a humidity problem inside the shuttle's research module -- that are not implicated in the accident. The e-mails will be released March 31 on the space agency's website. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said there are no shocking new revelations in the e-mail traffic and many of the e-mails have already been released to the media. He said NASA is releasing the e-mails in response to Freedom of Information Act requests the agency has received from numerous news organizations. The e-mails have already been provided to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, O'Keefe said, and have prompted investigators to seek additional interviews with NASA and contractor personnel about the deliberations surrounding imagery requests that went unheeded.
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