Space accidents and incidents

Numerous incidents have been reported around the world and what all these incidents appear to have in common are user error and the effects of weather conditions. Ben Popper, a seasoned drone pilot, wrote about a close call he had when his drone was caught by a gust of wind and vanished from his line of sight. After following the direction of where he assumed it landed, he found it near a mother and her child who were on a bicycle only to realize it had missed them by a few inches. This incident…

will always be incidents and failures as engineers push the boundaries by building astonishing infrastructures, constructing longer tunnels, and reaching further into space. However, each time there is an engineering failure or a disaster, engineers learn something new that they keep in mind while developing any further solutions to other problems. One of the biggest engineering disasters in the past was the Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl disaster was a devastating nuclear incident that occurred…

Who is really responsible for the Triangle Factory Fire? On March 25th, 1911 one of the world’s worst fire accidents was the day that the Triangle Factory was burned down. According to the young women who survived the fire, what caused the fire was that a few smokers within the building dropped a cigar into a waste basket full of scraps that were flammable and the fire spread out of control throughout the whole building. When the rescue teams and the police arrived to the scene, they estimated…

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…

mankind.” This quote by Neil Armstrong marked the end of the Space Race. The space race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could land a man on the moon first. It originally began as an arms race to build destructive missiles. But over the years, the main objective has changed. Even though the competition lasted a little more than a decade, it led to major contributions to the exploration of space. After World War II came to an end, the United States and…

The error occurred five years before the Apollo 13 incident while the spacecraft was in Florida. While the technicians were assembling the Apollo 13 spaceship, one of them dropped the second oxygen tank which caused the pipes that directed movement within the tank to become uneven. Technicians had to set…

Space Exploration & Why We Should Fund It Space exploration is a really expensive endeavor to the common civilian, it costs billions to operate a mission to space, billions to build the shuttles to get up there. The U.S.A space program NASA has seen less funding each year since 1966 where it peaked at 4.5% of the federal budget down to 1% in 1975 and it still loses funding each year even today! How is NASA staying afloat and it is effecting how long it will take us to achieve reasonable and…

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The Challenger was the first space craft in America that fatally exploded, and it was one of the most tragic days for many in America. The takeoff of the Challenger was viewed by many, including schoolchildren, who tuned in to watch. Many people were watching the Challenger take off into space, but as it was launched, on January 28, 1986, the Challenger broke apart only seventy-three seconds into its flight. This lead to the deaths of its seven crew members, which were five NASA astronauts and…

officials may be the first to respond to a call of a vehicle accident in that area, but are not well equipped to handle a hazardous material spill in the event of that accident. Local fire officials located in that area in charge of conducting the HAZMAT portion of the incident while law enforcement officers create a perimeter and secure the area. First responders, health officials, and government officials should all be trained in using the Incident Command System provided by the Federal…