The_Columbia_Accident

The Columbia Accident The Columbia Accident This accident and the deaths of the seven member crew could be easily prevented had the leaders and the managers addressed the concerns of their engineers. One of the leadership issues in this case was the fact that the managers were trying to cut the budget and improve efficiency. When I first came across the comment of the previous NASA administrator Daniel S. Goldin about how could the budget cuts impact the safety and him referring to it as a “bunch of crap” I was surprised. First, as a leader and a decision maker one of his primary concerns should be the safety of his crew, at least in my opinion, even though it was the responsibility of Shuttle Program Management, and they should work closely to address the safety issues. Second, when we look back into the history we can see that NASA had had the problem of foam strikes before with the Challenger and even witnessing its accident the administrative non-action still occurred due to the external political forces and the internal pressures of meeting the deadline within the organizational structure of NASA. And these were the major factors contributing to the development of the problem. columbia, safety, management, problem, nasa, one, managers, issues, engineers, case, accident, team, pressures, internal, however, even, cost, concerns, very, staff, something, shuttle, should, risk, responsibility, putting, program, problems, prevented, personnel, organizational, meeting, lives, least, leaders, inertia, improving