Psalm 51

On January 28, 1986, heartbreaking tragic event of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger took the lives of beloved people; Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison 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…

“If you lose military people during a military operation; it’s sad and it’s tragic, but they’re professionals doing a job… But you’re taking someone who’s not a professional and it happened to be that mission that got lost- it added to the shock.” said Chiao, a former astronaut. The shuttle Challenger had gone into space nine times before this mission. All nine of those missions had launched and landed properly without any trouble, so they were not expecting this shock. The Challenger shuttle…

On January 28TH 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave his speech famously known as “The Speech on the Challenger Disaster.” He gave this speech in a presidential, hopeful, and very American way. He acknowledges The Challenger Disaster in such a way to address the families of the lost and the school children whose teacher was involved in this terrible disaster. He also creates a positive opinion towards the United States Space Program. He continues to honor the astronauts and tries to help…

After watching the numerous videos on the Challenger Disaster, it is obvious the management decision lacked communication, connected with a management system that allowed NASA to neglect safety requirements, leading to the cause of the Challenger disaster. The management decisions on the Challenger were rushed interested in the shuttle going into space. NASA concerned by the money aspect than the safety of the astronauts. There were obvious signs the shuttle would run into some problems such as…

1. Executive Summary 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…

In this week’s case study assignment about “Groupthink” and the symptoms, that Irving Janus identified, as well as countermeasures. I chose my topic on the Challenger Disaster that happens on January 28, 1986. “That was a sad day, but not say as the night before that occurred in the NASA pre-launch teleconference meeting between the Thiokol Corporation Engineers, and the NASA Managers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Florida and Huntsville, Alabama”. (“Robert Ebeling, Challenger Engineer…

A Boom in History The NASA Challenger space shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986. This explosion has occurred only 73 seconds after liftoff devastating the whole world being broadcasted on national T.V. Six astronauts on board and a teacher named Christa McAuliffe, the lady who surpassed 11,000 other people to qualify and who would have been the first citizen in space, all died. Later on, it was discovered that two rubber O-ring, created to seperate the rocket boosters, failed due to the cold…

January 28, 1986 was when one of the most tragic events happened in history. Everyone was so excited to see the liftoff of the famous American shuttle orbiter. However, as little as 73 seconds after liftoff the famous Orbiter Challenger broke up. The families of the astronauts witnessed how the Orbiter challenger broke into many pieces in the sky. Seven astronauts lost their life that day, including a teacher who was from New Hampshire selected to join the mission so she could give lessons from…

Seventy-three seconds into its departure, the Challenger was engulfed in flames on January 28, 1986. "The greatest achievement in the history of the United States space program" disintegrated, along with the hopes and dreams of sending civilians to space. Due to the disaster, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) led a two-and-a-half-year suspension of the shuttle program. The Challenger explosion changed NASA, the safety of space shuttles, and the idea of space travel in a…

NASA and the entirety of the space industry was not always a welcome place for women. From the beginning of the program until recent years, women were shunned or disadvantaged in the male dominated field. The American space program began after the launch of Sputnik from Russia during the Cold War period. This struck fear into Americans and resulted in the interest of launching not only satellites, but also humans, into space. However, no one had any way of knowing what conditions…