What has NASA learned from the Columbia incident?(Research)

[Emazon]

I'm currently working on a HUGE paper that will account for a huge chunk of my grade for my Advanced Composition class, and one of the points I wanted to touch on was what the US/NASA has learned from the various tragidies, and how they were able to expand and change things... We've learned SOMETHING from Columbia, right? I mean, my professor is just evil enough to take off points for me not pointing something out, and it won't be very good if I say "While NASA learned stuff from Apollo 1 and Challenger, they haven't figured out anything from Columbia, but give them time. They're only human."

[Benji]

The Columbia accident was a stark realization that NASA is not a "perfect place" (CAIB Report pg. 102). They found out that NASA had some serious organizational problems that had not been fixed even after the Challenger accident. Chapter 8 in the report compares these two accidents.

Chapter 11 summarizes all of the board's recommendations from the changes to the shuttles design to changes in NASA's organization, which could also be helpful to you.

There are also many articles (see Space.com) relating to return-to-flight and a return-to-flight section of NASA's website.

[Emazon]

Oh, JACKPOT! Thank you so much, this will be invaluable!

[LaRsOnAtRiXkIx]

haha. i JUST finished a similar paper for contemporary physics. it was..fun.. i just procrastinate too much..i had done a lot of initial research, but i just started writing it on monday. and it was long..
hope yours went well.

[Emazon]

My only problems with it now is my question on if I'm making a strong enough arguement, and if it'll be short enough, though I can always knock it down to size 10 font if I need to.
I've still got to write up a few more points, but I've pretty much got my layout and most of my paper written.