The Leading in a Crisis Podcast

EP76 Crisis comms at NASA, part 2: Challenger vs. Columbia crisis responses

April 18, 2026·20 min
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Send us Fan Mail Columbia didn’t arrive when it was supposed to, and the whole world felt the silence. We sit down again with James Hartsfield, recently retired as director of communications at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, to walk through the most difficult minutes and hours after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and what crisis leadership looks like when every word carries consequence. He also looked back at the space shuttle Challenger response, and shares his thoughts on how differentl...

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