Background: Challanger Space Shuttle disaster happened in January 28 at 11:38 am. According to the report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shutte Challanger accident‚ shortly after 1 am ET on January 27‚ NASA’s booster rocket manager‚ Larry Wear‚ asks officials of rocket maker Morton Thiokol in Utah whether cold weather on January 28 would present a problem for launch. They got the answer by late afternoon after the midlevel NASA managers are on the phone with Thiokol managers‚ who
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The Columbia Space Shuttle disintegrated during its return to earth on February 1‚ 2003. The crew of seven astronauts died that day. As a result‚ the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) was created to investigate the cause of the tragic accident. The exact cause of the of the accident was that the a piece of the foam insulating material from the external tank broke free and struck the leading edge of the shuttle’s wing which damaged the heat shielding panels. The impact allowed super-heated
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On February 1‚ 2003‚ the space shuttle Columbia broke apart while re-entering the atmosphere over Texas‚ killing all seven crew members on board. The disaster occurred minutes before Columbia was scheduled to land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. An investigation later determined the catastrophe was caused by a problem that took place shortly after launch on January 16‚ when a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and damaged the edge of the shuttle’s left wing.
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Challenger Space Shuttle Risk Assessment (Extra Credit) The multiple failures that led the disastrous events on the 28th of January‚ 1986 were inexcusable. The reason the Challenger Space Shuttle blew up 73 seconds after launch was the result of a faulty sealing system which allowed exhaust flames from the Solid-Fuel Rocket Boosters (SRB) to vent directly on the external tank‚ rupturing the tank and causing the explosion. There was excessive erosion on the O-ring in the booster field joints
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aboard the challenger on the tragic day of January 28th 1986- a day that later called into question many organizational issues within NASA and managerial issues within the space shuttle program. Besides being recognized as the first mission to include a civilian astronaut‚ It is safe to say that the challenger shuttle disaster marked the reorganization of the space shuttle program and reinvented space travel in the U.S entirely. Lawrence Mulloy was one of the directors for the NASA space shuttle program
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Rachel White The Challenger On January 28th‚ 1986‚ the Challenger‚ a space shuttle‚ was to make an important journey into outer space. The challenger launch took the attention from many Americans. A woman named Christa McAuliffe‚ an average American school teacher was also on the journey. Christa McAuliffe was going to give school lessons to students from space. Children were anxious to Learn from space‚ and adults everywhere were fascinated. The morning of January 28‚ 1986 was going to be
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The Space Shuttle Columbia was the second space shuttle disaster and the first shuttle lost on land happened on February 1‚ 2003. In this mission‚ six American astronauts and Israel’s first spaceman died when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 200‚000ft above Texas. They are David Brown‚ Rick Husband‚ Laurel Clark‚ Kalpana Chawla‚ Michael Anderson‚ William McCool and Ilan Ramon. Rick husband is the Columbia’s commander was a US air force colonel recruited to the space program in 1994. He
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the tragedy of the space shuttle and how NASA can come back from that. Reagan uses the stretch and courage of the ones who died to draw the attention of the audience. Since‚ most people are looking for answers to how something like this happen‚ he really was able to grab their attention. The credibility and goodwill helped him‚ because some people were clueless they would have believed anything he said at that moment. Reagan mentioned the astronauts in the past before the Challenger accident that three
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occurred. The shuttle‚ Challenger‚ blew up in front of a live audience. The space launch was being broadcasted across the United States live from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This launch was one of the most publicized launches due to the first civilian going into space and also that the launch had been delayed six times before. The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission detailed that the launch took place on January 28‚ 1986 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The skis about Kennedy Space Center were
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Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster happened on February 1st‚ 2003‚ which broke on the way back to the Earth. All the astronauts‚ including two women died in this disaster. The reason why this disaster happened was a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank which damaged the left wing of the shuttle. Even though some engineers of NASA had doubted that the left wing of shuttle had been damaged‚ the administration staffs restricted to
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