Disasters

Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and school teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe. This event of the take-off was viewed by many Americans, including school children. President Ronald Reagan delivered a comforting and honoring speech, the “Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address.” In this speech, Reagan not only address this issue but he does this in such a way like no other. Honoring the brave astronauts for their wonderful service. Reagan does not want future astronauts or even the nation to fear this tragic…

safety, health and welfare of the public in the performance of their professional duties" (ASME Code of Ethics, 2009). These engineers in the case studies above have failed to fulfil their duty of care to the public. In the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, Lund 's decision to approve the launch was made by weighing the costs and benefits of risking the flight crew 's lives to make the launch schedule to save his company. In the Pinto Ford madness, the engineers went along with the manager 's…

The occasion of talk makes sense of what speaker attempts to address. Swarms foresee that the speaker will land at determinations in a legitimate behavior depending upon the occasion. Reagan's talk on space camp could be requested in two estimations: deliberative and quantifiable talk. It was a deliberative talk in light of the way that Reagan anticipated that would address "what should be completed into redirect such circumstances in future". In spite of the way that NASA had lost three space…

Pentagon Crisis Background Situation Overview September 11, 2001 one of the most impactful disasters in North American history. It is recorded that “at 9:37:46, American Airline Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon [and] all on board, as well as, many civilians were killed in the building” (the pentagon report, 2004). In another article it is stated the American Airlines Flight 77 killed “a crew of six, 58 passengers, and 125 individual [inside] the Pentagon” (Moynihan,2007) after being hijacked…

The Deep Water Horizon disaster had and still has a major impact on the Gulf coast of America. The millions of barrels of water that gushed into the ocean in April 2010 had a significant impact on the environment and the economic impact on the gulf coast. Even though the British Petroleum company and the US government tried to clean up the oil spill, there are till remnants of oil still in the gulf today. A couple weeks after the disaster occurred, the residents of the coast can see the impact…

Undoubtedly, one of the most tragic moments in history was the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. On January 28th, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff , killing all 7 of the crew members onboard. There were many theories about what could have caused the explosion to occur. One report claimed that there was a certain pattern with the smoke trail indicating that the shuttle ran into a jetstream. However, freezing temperatures hardened rubber o-rings on one…

reform (CAIB, 2003, p. 181). After the accident, NASA introduction of new operational procedures, which included the preparation of an emergency mission for future launches, was, in retrospect, the most significant and crucial change induced by the disaster (CAIB, 2003, p. 173,…

dissipate the money on a program that could bring horrible death to someone? I am conducting the logos and some pathos by stating that thirteen Americans have died from spaceflight missions. The first tragedy was from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that occurred on January 28, 1986, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members when it broke apart 73 seconds after takeoff.…

The Challenger’s first ever mission was on April 4, 1983. The challenger took place in The United States of America. The Challenger was named after the HMS Challenger Royal Navy corvette. This was successful until one morning it exploded. This tragedy happened on January 28, 1986. What happened was that two rubber O-rings had failed due to cold temperatures. The thing was that the rocket exploded seventy-three seconds or one minute and thirteen seconds. There were seven crew members…

NASA. Also, it had completed nine successful missions before the disaster. Following the accident, the shuttle program was suspended for 32 months as President Ronald Regan appointed a Commission, chaired by William P. Rogers and known as the Rogers Commission, to investigate the cause of the accident. The challenger, the space shuttle that exploded few minutes after its launch, marking the history as the most significant disaster in the history of space travel. The challenger’s explosion…