May 4, 2004

Allard Beutel 
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-064

NASA SAFETY PANEL ISSUES FIRST QUARTERLY REPORT

The first quarterly report from the reconstituted NASA Aerospace 
Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) is available on the Internet. 

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe rechartered ASAP in November 2003, to 
provide independent, long-term oversight of safety issues regarding 
operations, missions and other agency initiatives. The charter was 
revised to be consistent with the intent of ASAP's original 1967 
charter. That includes being focused on NASA's safety and quality 
systems, industrial and systems safety, risk management, trend 
analysis and the management of these activities. 

The new charter also calls on ASAP to report quarterly instead of 
annually. This is the panel's first report. The quarterly report, 
information about ASAP, including a copy of its charter and member 
biographies, is available on the panel's Web site at: 

http://asap.nasa.gov 

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov 

	
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