What is Rogers Commission Report?
[[File:Rogers-report-front-page.png|right|thumb|250px|Front page of the Commission Report to Congress]] The '''Rogers Commission Report''' was created by a [[Presidential Commission (United States)|Presidential Commission]] charged with investigating the [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster]] during its 10th mission, [[STS-51-L]]. ==Outcome== The report, released and submitted to President [[Ronald Reagan]] on 9 June 1986, both determined the cause of the disaster that took place 73 seconds after liftoff, and urged [[NASA]] to improve and install new safety features on the shuttles and in its organizational handling of future missions. == Commission members == [[Image:Rogers Commission members arrive at Kennedy Space Center.jpg|thumb|right|Members of the Rogers Commission arrive at [[Kennedy Space Center]].]] *[[William P. Rogers]], chairman and former [[United States Secretary of State]] (under [[Richard Nixon]]) and [[United States Attorney General]] (under [[Dwight Eisenhower]]) *[[Neil Armstrong]] (Vice Chairman), retired astronaut and first human to walk on the Moon ([[Apollo 11]]) *[[David Campion Acheson]], diplomat and son of former Secretary of State [[Dean Acheson]] *[[Eugene E. Covert]], aeronautics expert and former [[Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force]] *[[Richard Feynman|Richard P. Feynman]], theoretical physicist and winner of the 1965 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] *[[Robert B. Hotz]], Editor, ''Aviation Week And Space Technology'' *[[Donald J. Kutyna]], Air Force general with experience in ICBMs and Shuttle management *[[Sally Ride|Sally K. Ride]], American engineer, astrophysicist and first female American astronaut in space, flew on ''Challenger'' as part of missions [[STS-7]] and [[STS-41-G]] *[[Robert W. Rummel]], [[Trans World Airlines]] executive and aviation consultant to NASA *[[Joe Sutter]], engineer for [[Boeing]] and part of the team that developed the [[Boeing 747]] aircraft *[[Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr]], solar physicist and [[Stanford University]