Space Shuttle Columbia

on that brisk January day, President Ronald Reagan brought the nation together as one, in mourning the loss of seven lives aboard the space shuttle, Challenger. What made this moment so heartbreaking was due to the fact that not only were six astronauts lives lost, but also, the life of a teacher whom was about to make history by becoming the “first teacher in space” in addition to participating in an outreach program allowing her to teach lessons from her “out of this world” classroom. The…

Since the exposing of the external fuel tank foam caused Columbia to explode the CAIB’s first recommendation was to improve external fuel tank foam. They will improve on this by using bolt catchers which will not allow for the external tank to break free (History.com Staff). In doing this future shuttles will not be able to lose a backup tank for emergencies. There are also important pre-flight inspections that must be passed before a shuttle can go into orbit. There are extensive pre-flight…

occurred with the launch of the space shuttle “Challenger.” Seven of the astronauts boarding the space shuttle, “Challenger,” were killed mid-flight. The U.S. has not experienced anything like this, space travel is still new. Reagan shows his great appreciation for the working class of the U.S. by cancelling his State of the Union to provide a powerful message. Reagan delivers a speech with hope and clarity for the future of space endeavors. His faith for the space program and NASA is strong and…

In The Case For Space, Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Barack Obama effectively destroyed 7,500 jobs when he descaled the space shuttle program, but used rhetoric to mask his neglect for American jobs. The Case For Space is an article Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote for the Council on Foreign Relations in 2012 that is a more detailed backbone upon which his address to the Senate is based upon. Similar to his speech, Tyson gives several examples of how increasing NASA’s budget would have a positive…

Reagan sat in the Oval Office with his team of 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…

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…

Introduction The Challenger Disaster was a complex case because it involved multiple parties. The goal is not to determine whether the decision to launch the Challenger was right or wrong, but whether if it was ethical of them to decide to launch the shuttle at that point in time based what they knew about the conditions pertaining to the launch. In order to analyze this, I will be using the virtue theory. However, before the analysis can be done, an understanding of the case and virtue theory…

Engineering Disasters Engineers have opportunities and jobs like no other. Marvellous buildings and structures are completed, and new inventions are being created and implemented into society around the world, all thanks to engineers. However, not all of these inventions and structures are entirely perfect; in fact, some imperfect structures are more popular than the perfect ones because of the impact they have had on the people and areas around them. These famous imperfect structures are…

Recently I’ve been exploring a new and fairly bizarre concept of physiological psychology claiming that most of our most vivid memories are actually wrong. It seems so deeply frightening that our most detailed and intense memories may not be nearly as truthful as we think. Memories that we as individuals are absolutely POSITIVE about may actually be distorted and/or fabricated in our own minds without us consciously being aware of it. One cooky discrepancy in the realm of (what I strongly…

speaker will land at determinations in a legitimate behavior depending upon the occasion. Reagan's talk on space camp could be requested in two estimations: deliberative and quantifiable talk. It was a deliberative talk in light of the way that Reagan anticipated that would address "what should be completed into redirect such circumstances in future". In spite of the way that NASA had lost three space men all through a ground test in getting ready for the at first kept up Apollo flight, the…