Space Shuttle Discovery

In January of 1986, a conference call was conducted between NASA and Morton Thiokol Corporation engineers. The next day, the space shuttle Challenger was scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Engineers with Morton Thiokol attempted to convince NASA to delay Challenger’s launch because the icy temperatures could cause the O-rings to fail, leading to catastrophic consequences. The O-rings sealed the rocket’s motor joints; made of rubber, they were likely to lose elasticity in the…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, has been around for fifty-eight years now! NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for air and space travel. It has accomplished several different things pertaining to air and space travel. The biggest accomplishes are: human space flight, first human landing on the Moon, they also have humans living on the ISS (International Space Station), They have sent space probes to every single one of the planets in…

Have you ever been going 25,000 mph, fourteen times the speed of a bullet? Apollo 13 was just any old Apollo mission a least to the American people. Apollo 13 was a little mission that was to go to the moon and collect rocks that were fourteen billion years old. The oxygen tank exploded two days into their mission. It exploded because of faulty wiring that is why their mission was a fail. One reason that their mission was a fail was they couldn’t even compete their job. Their job was to…

The article “Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster and How Small Groups Can Be Made to Work” by James Surowiecki begins by explaining the twenty-eight flight of the space shuttle Columbia. Columbia was hit by a large piece of foam which has been broken off by the left bipod area of the shuttle's external fuel tank. Surowiecki focuses on a narrow strip of the disaster which is how the small group decided that “nothing could be done”(Surowiecki, 475) about the hit and how their…

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…

two very special movies about space and space adventures. “The Martian” and “Apollo 13” are one of the best movies about the world beyond the earth. They both express precisely the emotions of the astronauts travelling in the space and of the rest of the world, relatives, friends and crew members of each mission into the space. These two movies are quite different but still have a lot in common. “Apollo 13” is about seventh manned mission in American Apollo space program and the third one…

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 was also an actor in a large category of movies. When the shuttle …

Jaruis, Mike Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Judy Resnik, Ronald McNair, and Dick Scobee. Christa McAuliffe was a teacher in New Hampshire. She was selected to join the mission and teach lessons about space to kids.…

The general idea of this movie is evolution. The apes that appeared in the first act of the movie show this evolution, since the monoliths gave the apes the ability to use bone tools and eat meat. The idea of evolution was also apparent when one of the apes throws a bone into the air. Time flashes forward, and the bone transformed into a spaceship. Evolution was again evident when the team which was dispatched from Clavius touched the monolith, and a radio signal was heard. Finally, evolution…