Jim lecture slides -- "Space Lessons for Earth Safety" -- 2006

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Two Years Before Columbia, Jim Pointed to Flawed NASA Safety Culture:

In Scientific American, February 2000, he wrote:
"Many observers have been alarmed at the apparent increase [of failures], which could be a symptom of deeper problems that could lead to more failures in the future. . . . NASA will have to address its systemic weaknesses if it is to avoid a new string of expensive, embarrassing and perhaps in some cases life-threatening foul-ups."

In New Scientist, April 15, 2000, he wrote:
"Critics say that a number of accidents, oversights and failures in other NASA programmes indicate that other parts of the organisation are stretched to breaking point. NASA, they say, is repeating the errors that led to the Challenger disaster. The consequences of a future accident could, also, be fatal.. . . The cost of forgetting is now measured in hundreds of millions of dollars, years of delay and public humiliation. So far, no more human lives have been lost but the question NASA must answer is whether this will continue."

link to the NASA press release that attacks Jim by name
Brian Welch, originally a decent human being, died of a premature heart attack not long after he made the attacks. Seven astronauts died on Columbia two years later because NASA refused to pay attention to "wacko" warnings their safety culture was becoming corrupted.

Aviation Disaster Controversies

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The Columbia Catastrophe

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KAL - 007 30th Anniversary

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Space Quarantine

06/12/2008 - MSNBC.com: Why NASA watches out for true UFOs