A former NASA employee has been acquitted of charges he failed to properly inspect the labor of contractors working on the space shuttle Discovery, which is due to be the first shuttle sent into space since the Columbia accident. The judge had earlier thrown out most of the counts against Billy Thomas Thornton. Outside the courthouse, jurors said the prosecution had failed to show that Thornton neglected to do his job, and that the trial revealed holes in the way the space agency inspects contractors' work.
May 16, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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