NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours
by Robert Pearlman from Ars Technica - All content on (#701XK)
NASA is changing the way that its employees come in contact with, and remember, one of its worst tragedies.
In the wake of the 2003 loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew, NASA created a program to use the orbiter's debris for research and education at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Agency employees were invited to see what remained of the space shuttle as a powerful reminder as to why they had to be diligent in their work. Access to the Columbia Research and Preservation Office, though, was limited as a result of its location and related logistics.
To address that and open up the experience to more of the workforce at Kennedy, the agency has quietly begun work to establish a new facility.