Sun, Aug 24, 2003
Be Patient, This May Take Awhile
When the board looking
into why the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on
re-entry February 1st releases its final report Tuesday, good luck
getting a hard copy. Space.com reports, in spite of the global
interest in the investigative bodies findings, only 100 copies of
the report will be printed in the first publishing run.
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which
promised upon its formation that the report would be made available
to the White House, Congress and all of America, apparently forgot
to check with the printer. With copies already promised to the
White House and several lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as well as NASA,
a mere 100 copies won't go far at all.
Seems there have been some last-minute production problems in
the print run itself, producing fewer copies than hoped for and
producing them late. CAIB spokeswoman Laura Brown says, "I’m
only going to have 100 [copies] and I’m concerned
that’s not going to be enough. We are literally carrying it
back on an airplane."
One NASA source tells Space.com the multi-volume document is
being printed at a government facility in Seattle. It'll be flown
to Washington on board a NASA flight. But Brown says the space
agency has no intentions of duping the public. "That’s not to
keep it secure," Brown says. "We needed a facility to do a quick
turnaround at a reasonable price to the government. That piece of
it has nothing to do with security, but we are going to great
lengths to keep it secure. My pledge to the press was to keep it as
secure as possible so everyone is on a level playing field."
But what about getting more than 100 copies?
Brown says, if you want to see the report in its entirety, go to
the Internet. The CAIB final report will be available on the
board's website upon its release Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m.
EDT.
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