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    My Report on President Ronal Reagan’s Challenger Address (Ronald Reagan. The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganchallenger.htm) President Ronald Reagan talked about the January 28, 1986 Challenger shuttle incident instead of on the state of congress and the grief it threw on our country. President Ronald Reagan was the speaker. He was the 40th president and head of the NASA space program. He was born in 1911 and died in 2004. He…

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    Challenger Explosion Memo

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    The purpose of this memo is to analyze the accessibilityand ethicsof three technicaldocuments inthe Challenger Case Study: Document A: Ray January 1978 Memo, Document B: Ray January 1979 Memo, and Document F: BoisjolyJuly 1985 Memo. The 1986 Challenger explosion stands as one of the most tragic incidents of space travel in US history. Perhaps the most shockingdetail of the accident is that theproblemthat caused the explosion, issues with the O-ring,had been known for years before the launch.…

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    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.…

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    used to doing. Sometimes people might take a risk depending on what it is. The NASA crew took a big risk when launching the Challenger during extreme temperatures. The astronauts were taking one of the biggest risk of their lives. This risk could have taken a positive or a negative affect. In this case it took a negative effect, lets see how. January 28,1986 the Challenger was ready for lift-off. This mission was delayed for six days because of bad weather and technical problems. NASA crew…

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    *National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day* Today is _National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day_. While he was in office, President Ronald Reagan designated October 1988 as _Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month_, which he began to remember pregnancy loss and infant death including, but not limited to, miscarriage, still birth, SIDS or the death of a newborn. Prior to social media, I never knew that such a day/month of remembrance existed, but I remember and often think…

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    Try not to float away! Space is pretty big, 435,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 KM or 46 billion light years away to be exact. Who knows what is out there. It also has zero gravity so you probably would not be stable at all. Who knows what can happen. Why does this matter? Because space should not privatized. It should not be privatized because multiple lives have been lost while on space missions, it should not be ran by undercover organization that no one knows and last space should not be used…

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    remember that day as though it was yesterday. That day, schools had closed in my county due to snow. I was home, flipping through the television when I came across a news broadcast about the impending launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. I do not remember if I had knowledge of the space program before that day, but something that day piqued my interest. As I sat watching the television, hearing the stories, mainly revolving around Christa McAuliffe, I could feel the tensions rise within…

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    “Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address” Analysis The “Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address” was given by Ronald Reagan at 5 p.m. from the Oval Office at the White House on January 28, 1986. Ronald Reagan uses different strategies and appeals, and manipulation of language to make his speech have the effect that it did on the Nation. Ronald Reagan uses many loaded words to stress how he is mourning the loss of the heroes that died. He reached out to their families and loved ones, which always brings…

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    The Rat Film Analysis

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    In the next shot, the FBI has arrived at a technician’s home as they have a search warrant. He attempts to destroy all the data; the FBI breaks in and apprehends him. In turns out that the technician has a history of computer fraud which is what the warrant was for; he has been caught two times prior and is being arraigned for a third offense. They also learn that he is a highly skilled hacker who managed to cripple the FBI’s database the year before. The technician known as Theodore Finch,…

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    Essay On Judith Resnik

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    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. Before she worked for NASA…

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