Disaster

shuttle while taking off; crash engineers could not pinpoint exactly where the damage took place. On February 1, 2003 Columbia Shuttle broke down while when reentering the atmosphere, killing seven astronauts on board. This became a huge story of disaster for the nation and generated an investigation. The investigation resulted shutting down the Space Shuttle Program for a short period of time and gave safety…

The article goes on to explain that there was no way that the crew could have survived and that the $1.2 billion spacecraft was in fact, completely destroyed. The Challenger disaster was the first “in-the-air disaster” in fifty six United States “man-in-space missions.” After several technical and weather related delays, The Challenger successfully launched at 11:38 a.m. EST and appeared to be fine until it abruptly exploded into a “huge fireball…

Document Awas an internal NASA responseby Leon Rayto MTI’s proposal to relax standards on the O-ring. Given that this document was written 8 years before the disaster,it could have prevented the explosionfrom occurring. However, due to a lack of accessibility in the document, it failed in its purpose of informing NASA managementabout the issues with the O-Ring.Document Bwasonce againan internal NASA responseby…

Imagine traveling to an unknown realm and exploring infinite areas, with the help of space explo-ration the possibilities are endless, a period full of discovery and technological advancements, space exploration starting from 1961 to present day has had a major impact on the human race. Whether be success on the first spacewalk and landing on the moon, or to the untimely destruc-tion of the challenger launch, space exploration has contributed to the history our society has to-day. Though the…

The NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, just 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft’s 10th mission. The shuttle was in its 1st stage ascent at 46000 feet, Altitude when it disintegrated. The disaster claimed the lives of all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire who would have been the first civilian in space. The failure occurred due to a structural design flaw in the joint that engineers had…

Speech Analysis: President Ronald Reagan's Address on the Space Shuttle “Challenger” Ever had a day already planned out and then something happens that throws everything array? On the evening of January twenty-eighth in 1986, President Ronald Reagan's main goal of the speech was to mourn and remember the lives lost. Ronald Reagan delivered the speech because he was the President and also because he was fit to present this speech to the public because he's not personally invested in the lives…

is the day that the space shuttle Challenger explode 73 seconds after it lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, killing the seven people on board, including a civilian school teacher. After an intensive investigation into the cause of the disaster, it was determined to have been the result of a faulty O-ring that allowed fuel to escape during the “burn” which resulted in the explosion. However, it was not a complete surprise to the flight engineers of Morton Thiokol that the explosion…

later, similar problems would lead to another NASA tragedy, the loss of the space shuttle Columbia. Although the technical reasons for the Columbia’s destruction were massive system failures, the true reasons were eerily similar to the Challenger disaster, in that they were really the result of organizational failure. NASA was once again in the spotlight, as the organization was thoroughly examined and found lacking as a result of “organizational breakdowns” (Bolman & Deal, 2008, p. 191) and…

On January 28, 1986 a disaster that was never thought imaginable happened, during the launch of the space shuttle challenger there was a “malfunction”, one that would lead to the death of 7 brave crew member and leave the nation in fear. Ronald Reagan emotional speech addressing the space shuttle challenger tragedy calms the people of the nation and helps them understand that the best course of action is to move forwards and continue the space program in honor of the fallen heros. Reagan uses…

broke apart after lift off due to O-ring failure because of cold weather. The Challenger disaster killed all seven of the astronauts on board the shuttle. Due to the space shuttle Challenger disaster earlier that day, President Ronald Reagan decided that instead of giving his speech on the state of the Union that he was scheduled to give, he spoke to the nation about the tragedy that is the Challenger disaster. President Ronald Reagan did not have much time to have a speech prepared. Even though…