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OrlandoSentinel.com: Opinion: "This time, NASA must be made to keep its promises. How? By congressional mandate that it institute an anomaly-reporting program involving

=Total Transparency: Having established the CAIB's recommended 'independent technical engineering authority' responsible for operational safety, require that NASA list all testing and flight anomalies on shuttle-operations bulletin boards at Mission Control, integrated launch operations headquarters at Cape Canaveral, shuttle-crew quarters, and NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. Automatically send press releases listing these reports to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle and the Orlando Sentinel.
= Personal and Corporate Accountability: Such reports should display three column headings: Component/System Anomaly, Manufactured By, and Name of NASA Contact Person (dependent on component or system affected). Also listed should be financial penalty to be assessed for proven quality-control lapses producing a component problem.
= Vested Personnel Interest: Following resumption of shuttle launches, mandate that at least the first 10 flights include one non-astronaut mission-specialist observer from middle or upper levels of NASA management. Observers randomly selected from different technical areas would research innovative design approaches for advanced components, procedures and related ergonomics for shuttle replacement spacecraft."

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