One to Two Months Later
February 1986 +
Government documents are released describing federal investigations into management problems at NASA that may have contributed to the explosion.
|Government Document Characteristics|
|AUDIENCE:||Government officials, the general public|
|AUTHOR:||Civil servants, elected officials|
|TIMELINESS:||Depends on the format government documents available on the Web are available quickly; printed documents are sometimes not available in libraries for several months|
|CONTENT:||The official response to an event: transcripts of hearings or speeches; reports from government agencies; statistics; research reports|
|TYPE OF SOURCE:||Primary|
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