Dodge Challenger

Ronald McNair, (Mission Specialist), Michael Smith, (Pilot), Ellison Onizuka, (Mission Specialist),and Gregory Jarvis, (Payload Specialist), dove into an adventure that would take one American citizen (a teacher) into the depths of space. The Challenger was an extremely inspirational mission, just not in the way America had hoped. Showing the disaster live on television everywhere the crash scared everyone watching. Christa McAuliffe was chosen to go into space in a contest held by NASA, and…

advisors putting the finishing touches on his State of the Union speech, which was slated to occur that evening (Cannon, “Challenger Disaster”). At this same moment in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the space shuttle Challenger began its launch. However, this spacecraft would never exit our atmosphere; 73 seconds after liftoff, it exploded, killing all seven passengers (“Challenger Disaster”). After learning of these events, Reagan and his advisors decided that a State of the Union with the country in…

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complacency it had fallen into, prompting a serious revaluation of their notions of acceptable levels of risk, with comparison to 1986 Challenger explosion coming into play, CAIB notes on the similarities are that “both accidents were ‘failures of foresight’” and the parallels between the failures demonstrates “the causes of the institutional failure responsible for Challenger had not been fixed”; and that “if these persistent, systemic flaws are not resolved, the scene is set for another…

asked about popular fads, Marlena replied, “Big hair, parachute pants, and MTV was all the rage.” ATM’s, microwaves, touch tone phones, and the Internet were all invented in her youth. In 1986, in the 6th grade, Marlena watched the Space Shuttle Challenger explode on television during class. In the same year she experienced a 5.0 earthquake. The shuttle explosion was the first disaster she ever witnessed. It…

re-entry. Space exploration takes a lot of money, the budget increased 3.1 percent from 2003 to 2004. The Columbia incident was the second of two tragedies of space shuttle disasters in the past 30 years, the other tragedy being the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. These accidents are being used as learning experiences, to further improve protocol, technology and safety. Space exploration must continue, as we have so much…

Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland in 1977. In 1984 she received a NASA Space Medal. She was apart of two major NASA Space missions onboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-41-D which took place in 1984 before she received her Medal and as well as STS-51-L which took place on January 28, 1986, the day the Orbiter Challenger exploded after launch killing everyone including Judith Resnik making her death day January 28, 1986. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.…

Astronaut Luca Parmitan’s EMU experienced a near life threatening fluid leak during his space walk in 2013. During his spacewalk, Parmitan reported feeling water in his helmet and behind his head. The spacewalk continued up until the water reached his face, making it difficult for him to see and breathe. A photo of the EMU helmet worn by Astronaut Luca Parmitan filling up with water to recreate the leakage. (NASA, 2013) At first, the leakage was thought to have occurred due to a malfunction in…

The Challenger disaster is a tragic example of contradicting proper management and engineering decisions. The management on the The Space Center were informed about Morton Thiokol engineers recommendation againts launching Challenger space shuttle. Unfortunately, The Space Center chose to ignore that option. Vice president of Morton Thiokol, only considering about business profit, even persuaded the supervising engineer at that time to “take off your engineering hat and put on your management…

On January 28, 1986, Challenger, an American space shuttle exploded momentarily after lift off shocking the nation; including the children viewing from their classrooms. The crew of Challenger included seven members, but most notably was a school teacher Christa McAuliffe who was invited with the intent to teach school children from the shuttle. This incident received massive amounts of media coverage, and on the same day as the incident, President Ronald Reagan conducted his speech. Ronald…