Rogers Commission Report

Note: The entire report is hundreds of pages. This is just a few of the highlights.

• Spacelink note
• Preface
• The Challenger Accident
• Sequence of Major Events of the Challenger Accident
• The Cause of the Accident
• The Contributing Cause of the Accident
• An Accident Rooted in History
• The Silent Safety Program
• Pressures on the System
• Other Safety Considerations
• Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
• Recommendations of the Presidential Commission

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There is another version of the Rogers Commission Report at NASA KSC. It is better in that is has a table of contents for the portions which are omitted and a copy of the Feynmann appendix, but worse in that it is plain text rather than HTML which is harder for browsers to display well. I think it is slightly more complete than this version (I haven't compared carefully, however).

This version of the Rogers Commission Report is taken from a document at NASA Spacelink (91k, text). The only changes were reformatting.