Selected artifacts from Columbia toured all of the NASA centers in 2008 to reinforce the agency’s safety culture. “It’s not to point fingers or lay blame,” Ciannilli said, “but people need to understand why it’s important for every single person to be vigilant every day. You can tell them that, and sometimes it doesn’t sink in. But after people see the debris, they say, ‘Wow—I really get it now.’”
