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More workers stand up at meetings and ask questions. More time is spent in making careful decisions. As NASA sets aside Thursday as a day to remember the dead and reflect on its mis takes, its redemption for Columbia goes on, moving for ward in small, sometimes barely perceptible ways. Not all those on the inside like what they see in tenns of cultural shift, including the wid ower of one of the Columbia astronauts. Some of the accident investigators who assailed NASA for its broken safety cul ture still hear grumbling from the lower working levels, and say they’re not surprised. But those at the top appear to be working hard to eradicate fear of reprisal for speaking out, one of the flaws in the system that doomed Columbia. “Obviously, that kind of atti tude comes from the top down,” says Jose Garcia, a retired shut tle operations manager who took his complaints about NASA safety cutbacks all the way to the White House in 1995. Garcia keeps in touch with many of his former co-workers and the word is, “things are get ting better, they’re headed in the right direction.” The fact that NASA is put ting aside its “bunker mentali ty” and seeking outside help to achieve cultural change is encouraging, says Diane Vaughan, a Boston College soci ologist who assisted in the Columbia inquiry. “They are up against the obstacle of time, of course, because it takes a long time to change culture,” says Vaughan, author of the 1996 book, “The Challenger Launch Decision.” “But I think that the step to bring in outsiders to consult with is a very important one.” In a hopeful sign of change, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe has designated Thursday as a “Day of Remembrance” throughout the space agency, for reflecting not only on the dead but the tragic consequences of getting it wrong. He plans to make it an annual late-January event, coming as close as it does to all three NASA catastrophes. The Apollo 1 fire during a countdown test on Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. The Challenger explosion during liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, left seven dead. The Columbia breakup during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003, killed seven more. Seventeen casualties all because of lousy human judgment. NASA employ ees are being asked also to remember the two men who died in a helicopter crash in Texas last March while searching for Columbia wreck age. Flags will fly at half-staff at NASA centers Thursday through Monday, when a memorial to the Columbia crew will be dedicat ed at Arlington National By The Clark says one of leagues, a psychiatrist, \ leered to work at the newN Engineering and Safety 0 in Virginia, an outgrowtho Columbia disaster. He was "No, no, we only want neers,” according to Clark sl "That’s the exact kindotM 11 c ‘ ..... . tdarel tude, that it s not an engine* .^j problem, per se,” that nee*,, ,| 1t change, Clark says. “You* US e sociologists and psychol Jid N you need the soft scitjth St because they’re the ones are going to tell you when pie start having intuitive ings, you l u It's a time to continually, contin ually remind our selves of what the price is for getting this wrong. start listen O’Keel he would Indin; ■at ult ha e tl ■ The ■ t\ ISl apthen ■ incr for it — Sean O'Kee NASA Administrat lingering ik| among the \! . w ork I the the Cemetery, right next to Challenger crew memorial. “It’s a time to continually, continually remind ourselves of what the price is for getting this wrong,” O’Keefe told reporters earlier this month. “There are seven families that will live with this forever, and it’s something we can’t any single day ever forget.” One of those families is dis satisfied with NASA's progress one year later. Dr. Jon Clark, a NASA neu rologist who lost his wife Laurel aboard Columbia, says he sees and hears enough to know that resistance persists. “The people who don’t sit there and see themselves in the report and see ways they can improve things, they’re the ones who need to go," Clark says. “In other words, they embrace change, but it’s changing some body else, not them." Suit, i “look at things difte transform the way we’i ized.” O'Keefe says. “Do you need to havtj other evidence of why wi to do this?” O'Keefe aski J there be folks who will i and be naysayers? time you get 20,000 you’re always going to! some percentage who with a different opinion.” The retired Garcia wa ihat time will take its toll, ju it did after the Challenger« dent, and that budget cniM and schedule pressures wilU piling up once more. “The fact that we’re ch I mg hack now doesn’t n shock me based on past his* That's really what we'vei every time” following an dent, Garcia says. “Nowi sustain it? 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