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 speech, Reagan…
” 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 played a big role in President Reagan's Teacher in Space program. The shuttle was going to take a teacher named Christa McAuliffe into space. This was planned because Reagan wanted more kids interested in space and to show them that they can be a…
for six days because of bad weather and technical problems. NASA crew prepared for lift-off; 3-2-1-lift-off. People held their breaths and when it lifted up; people thought it was a successful mission. Seventy-three seconds after lift-off “the space-shuttle broke apart and plunged…
literature review was to study about quality could mean the difference between excellence and disaster on a real life project. Therefore, the literature review discussed a space shuttle project the Challenger shuttle disaster. The first part of the literature review discussed the Vaughan’s (1996) analysis, which found the human errors are one of the main reasons of resulting the Challenger shuttle disaster. Also, by outlining Perrow’s (1999) Normal Accident Theory, it argues that complex…
On January 28, 1986 seven crew members were killed when their shuttle exploded mid-flight. 74 year old Ronald Reagan was the president at the time of the incident. Reagan was only one year into his second term as president. He was fascinated with the space program so he played a big part in the rebuilding years after the tragedy. Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States in 1981, although he did not originally start out as a politician. He was born in Tampico, Illinois on…
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 the…
Bondar- Geography ISU Roberta Lynn Bondar was an astronaut, physician, educator, and a photographer. Roberta was the first female Canadian astronaut to visit space (she was the second Canadian astronaut to visit space after Chris Hadfield). She was born on December 4, 1945, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. As a child, she had always found space fascinating. Now that she looks back, she believes that this fascination has led to her career as an astronaut. She attended the Sir James Dunn…
Imagine traveling to an unknown realm and exploring infinite areas, with the help of space explo-ration the possibilities are endless, a period full of discovery and technological advancements, space exploration starting from 1961 to present day has had a major impact on the human race. Whether be success on the first spacewalk and landing on the moon, or to the untimely destruc-tion of the challenger launch, space exploration has contributed to the history our society has to-day. Though the…
in history. It was the day that the STS-51-L mission was the 25th flight launch of the Space Shuttle Program. The mission ended as a tragic, the Challenger suddenly had a catastrophic disaster with only 73 seconds from lift off, the shuttle killed all seven crew members. The Space Shuttle Disaster has a rememberance memorial in Washington D.C in the Arlington National Cemetery. The national Aeronautics and Space Administration will always remember the day that a teacher and six other crew…
flew to space. Sally was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles California. She went Stanford University and got a degree in physics. In 1977 NASA was looking for women astronauts. During that time Sally was still a student still she applied for the job and she was picked. Sally was one of the girls picked out of a thousand other appliers. On June 18, 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly to space. Her job was to work on the robotic arm. The arm helped put satellites into space.…