Space Shuttle Discovery

The Shuttle Challenger Disaster of 1986 The Disaster of the Space Challenger not only affected the way NASA checked their space shuttle and produced them but it also changed the way that they were viewed. Despite the disaster, NASA has gone through positive changes still to this day. These positive changes such as the way they are viewed by Americans as a whole and also being able to make technological advances to improve space missions. The Challenger was expected to explore into space on…

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 low temperature and nonfunctional O-rings. If I were placed in a similar situation I would express my concerns for safety and the negative possibilities that could happen if the shuttle launched. If someone speaks up their automatically labeled…

1. Executive Summary The NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, just 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft’s 10th mission. The shuttle was in its 1st stage ascent at 46000 feet, Altitude when it disintegrated. The disaster claimed the lives of all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire who would have been the first civilian in space. The failure occurred due to a structural design flaw in the joint…

pre-launch teleconference meeting between the Thiokol Corporation Engineers, and the NASA Managers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Florida and Huntsville, Alabama”. (“Robert Ebeling, Challenger Engineer Who Warned of Disaster, Dies at 89”). "This teleconference meeting was called because Bob Ebeling, Engineer at Thiokol had expressed his critical concerns about the Space Shuttle O-rings in the solid rocket boosters to his boss, and the Thiokol Corporation…

A Boom in History The NASA Challenger space shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986. This explosion has occurred only 73 seconds after liftoff devastating the whole world being broadcasted on national T.V. Six astronauts on board and a teacher named Christa McAuliffe, the lady who surpassed 11,000 other people to qualify and who would have been the first citizen in space, all died. Later on, it was discovered that two rubber O-ring, created to seperate the rocket boosters, failed due to the cold…

history. Everyone was so excited to see the liftoff of the famous American shuttle orbiter. However, as little as 73 seconds after liftoff the famous Orbiter Challenger broke up. The families of the astronauts witnessed how the Orbiter challenger broke into many pieces in the sky. Seven astronauts lost their life that day, including a teacher who was from New Hampshire selected to join the mission so she could give lessons from space to students around the country. This moment affected many…

flames on January 28, 1986. "The greatest achievement in the history of the United States space program" disintegrated, along with the hopes and dreams of sending civilians to space. Due to the disaster, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) led a two-and-a-half-year suspension of the shuttle program. The Challenger explosion changed NASA, the safety of space shuttles, and the idea of space travel in a tragic but memorable way. Almost sixty years ago, NASA was created in…

is a failure analysis report regarding the Space Shuttle Columbia¬, the first space-rated Space Shuttle in NASA’s Orbiter fleet that disintegrated during re-entry during the end of its 28th mission on 1 February 2003 (Columbia Accident Investigation Board [CAIB], 2003, p. 39). The accident, described as a “tragedy” by former President George W. Bush, seized the lives of all seven crew-members aboard and led to a two-year suspension of the Space Shuttle Program (Bush, 2003; CAIB, 2003, p. 209).…

perplexed by outer space. We look at the sky and for the first time in our lives, we feel minuscule. In a world where humans are at the top of the hierarchy, space seems to swallow us entirely. Space exploration’s origin can be traced back to curiosity. Exploring space not only answers numerous questions we all share about the universe, it also grants us a deeper look into the world we inhabit. Try imagining a new color. Impossible, right? We have the same dilemma with imagining space. However,…

paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public in the performance of their professional duties" (ASME Code of Ethics, 2009). These engineers in the case studies above have failed to fulfil their duty of care to the public. In the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, Lund 's decision to approve the launch was made by weighing the costs and benefits of risking the flight crew 's lives to make the launch schedule to save his company. In the Pinto Ford madness, the engineers went along with…