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On February 29, seven US congressmen issued a letter to White House Office of Science and Technology Director John Holdren urging that NASA be given... Read more →
NASA’s System Safety Handbook Vol 1
In November 2011, NASA published the first of a two volume System Safety Handbook. "This volume provides a high level view of the concepts," says... Read more →
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
