admiral gehman, major general barry, burkett aired general deal, dr. jim hallock, all of them are original members. scott hubbard planned the plan called for naming a senior nasa official to be a member of the board and scott at that point director got the honor. i was able to join in early march after the decision that the board was going to look at the history of the budgets in the and the political history of the shuttle program. doug osheroff was added at the same time mainly i think because the board needed a nobel prize winner and we got doug. osheroff won his nobel and cold temperature physics and was pretty clear by then that shedding from the external tank was part of the -- and sally ride was fÊted at the same time because she was sally ride, very smart woman and because she had it on the challenger investigation and because she still had a lot of good contacts internal with nasa she was nasa's eye i in terms of what was really going on. earlier roger petro, an ace engineer and a week later she loved widnall a highly qualified engineer added

admiral gehman, major general berry, general diehl, dr.ck, ken hess, all of them original members. scott hubbard, the plan called for naming a senior nasa official to be member of the board, and scott at that point director of aims, got that honor. put honor in quotes. i was asked to join in early march after the decision that the board was going to look at the history and the budgets and the political history of the shuttle program. doug osheroff was added at the same time mainly, i think, because the board needed a nobel prize winner. challenger had had feinman, and we got doug. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. but better to have feinman. osheroff won his nobel in cold temperature physics, and it was pretty clear by then that foam shedding off the external tank was part of the accident chain. sally ride was added at the same time because she was sally ride, very smart woman, because she had been on the challenger invest, because she still had a lot of good contacts internal to nasa. she was our kind of nasa spy in terms of what was really going o

admiral gehman, of course, was announced as chairman. again, i think sean's predilections toward the navy were certainly known, but it was also, i think, not an accident that we had a lot of military and aviation people on the board because we were looking for really the best people in the country we could get for what we knew to be a very interdisciplinary sort of analysis. so other names were added later, as logsdon described, but we were really trying to pull on on the best the country had to offer. in the course of the activities, again, from my particular knot hole, i had the unusual duty of chairing the final approval group for releasing responses to foia inquiries. it's quite a process that worked, i think, quite well. a tone was set early on that we would be as forward-leaning as possible and release all material from prior to the accident itself. materials released would come to a big conference room in binders, and they would get one last look for personal identifying information, you know, people's home phone numbers, social s