Space shuttle Columbia accident cause

Twenty years later, another Space Shuttle was lost. While the proximate cause for the Columbia accident (foam hitting the wing of the orbiter) was very different than that for Challenger, many of the systemic causal factors were similar and reflected either inadequate fixes of these factors after the Challenger accident or their reemergence in the years between these losses [117]. 

Again, it is very eerie to compare the similarities of the Challenger (1986) and Columba (2003) Space Shuttle accidents, especially with a focus on safety management. Like the previous example and the list of accidents in the Table 4.2, we must all be humble in recognizing that though we may understand the causes of accidents, we don t always know how to not repeat them. Some of the causes of the Columbia accident, which were similar to Challenger, are the following ... 

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