Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

(In compliance with Executive Order 12546 of February 3, 1986)

Table of Contents

Volume I

                 Preface...........................................1  

  Chapter I    - Introduction......................................2
  Chapter II   - Events Leading Up to the Challenger Mission......10
  Chapter III  - The Accident.....................................19
  Chapter IV   - The Cause of the Accident........................40
  Chapter V    - The Contributing Cause of the Accident...........82
  Chapter VI   - An accident Rooted in History...................120
  Chapter VII  - The Silent Safety Program.......................152
  Chapter VIII - Pressures on the System.........................164
  Chapter IX   - Other Safety Considerations.....................178

                 Recommendations.................................198          
                 The Commission..................................202
                 The Staff.......................................204

  Appendix A   - Commission Activities...........................206
  Appendix B   - Commission Documentation System.................214
  Appendix C   - Observations Concerning the Processing And 
                 Assembly of Flight 51-l.........................219
  Appendix D   - Supporting Charts and Documents.................225
 
Volume II

  Appendix E   - Independent Test Team Report to the Commission
  Appendix F   - Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle
  Appendix G   - Human Factors Analysis
  Appendix H   - Flight Readiness Review Treatment of O-ring Problems
  Appendix I   - NASA Pre-Launch Activities Team Report
  Appendix J   - NASA Mission Planning and Operations Team Report
  Appendix K   - NASA Development and Production Team Report
  Appendix L   - NASA Accident Analysis Team Report
  Appendix M   - Comments by Morton Thiokol on NASA Report

Volume III

  Appendix N   - NASA Photo and TV Support Team Report
  Appendix O   - NASA Search, Recovery and Reconstruction Task Force
                 Team Report
 
Volume IV

    Hearings of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle
    Challenger Accident: February 6, 1986 to February 25, 1986

Volume V

    Hearings of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle
    Challenger Accident:  February 26, 1986 to May 2, 1986.

Note: Currently only parts of each section are online