title: Space shuttle. Columbia disaster underscores the risky nature of risk analysis.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Seife
mesh_terms: D000060:Accidents, Aviation; D004190:Disasters; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014481:United States; D018557:United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration; D014893:Weightlessness