Government Investigations
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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