Orbiting Carbon Observatory Loss Investigation Launched Today

NASA has selected the members of the board that have started to investigate today the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on Feb. 24 [video].

Rick Obenschain, deputy director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., leads the mishap investigation board.The board consists of four other voting members: Jose Caraballo, safety manager at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.] Patricia Jones, acting chief of the Human Systems Integration Division in the Exploration Technology Directorate at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.; Richard Lynch, Aerospace Systems Engineering, Goddard Space Flight Center; and, Dave Sollberger, deputy chief engineer of the NASA Launch Services Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ex-officio member is Ruth Jones, Safety and Mission Assurance manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.