TY - JOUR T1 - The epistemic integrity of NASA practices in the space shuttle program JF - ACCOUNTABILITY IN RESEARCH - POLICIES AND QUALITY ASSURANCE Y1 - 2013 A1 - De Winter, Jan A1 - Kosolosky, Laszlo AB -

This article presents an account of epistemic integrity and uses it to demonstrate that the epistemic integrity of different kinds of practices in NASA's Space Shuttle Program was limited. We focus on the following kinds of practices: (1) research by working engineers, (2) review by middle-level managers, and (3) communication with the public. We argue that the epistemic integrity of these practices was undermined by production pressure at NASA, i.e., the pressure to launch an unreasonable amount of flights per year. Finally, our findings are used to develop some potential strategies to protect epistemic integrity in aerospace science.

VL - 20 SP - 72–92 ER -