Challenger Space Shuttle Essay
DATA ANALYSIS
1.) Why or how did the issues arise?
Challenger Space Shuttle
* Management’s decision for the launch to proceed.
Cause: The upper-level management in both Moton Thiokol and Marshall Flight Center ignored the engineering expertise of the Thiokol engineers who worked on the Solid Rocket Booster Development Program.
Effect: An order for the launch to proceed has been decided even when all the facts where unknown about the problem on the SRB design on low-temperatures.
* Political Pressures
Cause: * The Congress was becoming increasingly unhappy with the delays in the shuttle project and shuttle performance. * NASA was feeling some urgency in the program because the European Space Agency was developing what seemed to …show more content…
Columbia Space Shuttle
* Cultural issues within NASA: “Broken Safety Culture”
Cause: The problem with the foam detaching from the fuel tank during launch had already happened on previous occasions, as well as with the foam had striking the shuttle. Solutions to the problem had been proposed over the years but none had been implemented. Although NASA engineers initially identified foam strikes as a majority safety concern for the shuttle after many launches with no safety problems due to the foam, NASA management became complacent and overlooked the potential for the foam to cause major problems.
Effect: The detachment of the foam damaged the tiles that led to the subsequent failure of critical components of the shuttle.
2.) Who is affected most by this issues? The stakeholders of the following issues includes the American government and its people that funds and delegates the agency with the responsibility for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Also, and the most important stakeholders, are the crew whose lives are at stake at every
1.) Why or how did the issues arise?
Challenger Space Shuttle
* Management’s decision for the launch to proceed.
Cause: The upper-level management in both Moton Thiokol and Marshall Flight Center ignored the engineering expertise of the Thiokol engineers who worked on the Solid Rocket Booster Development Program.
Effect: An order for the launch to proceed has been decided even when all the facts where unknown about the problem on the SRB design on low-temperatures.
* Political Pressures
Cause: * The Congress was becoming increasingly unhappy with the delays in the shuttle project and shuttle performance. * NASA was feeling some urgency in the program because the European Space Agency was developing what seemed to …show more content…
Columbia Space Shuttle
* Cultural issues within NASA: “Broken Safety Culture”
Cause: The problem with the foam detaching from the fuel tank during launch had already happened on previous occasions, as well as with the foam had striking the shuttle. Solutions to the problem had been proposed over the years but none had been implemented. Although NASA engineers initially identified foam strikes as a majority safety concern for the shuttle after many launches with no safety problems due to the foam, NASA management became complacent and overlooked the potential for the foam to cause major problems.
Effect: The detachment of the foam damaged the tiles that led to the subsequent failure of critical components of the shuttle.
2.) Who is affected most by this issues? The stakeholders of the following issues includes the American government and its people that funds and delegates the agency with the responsibility for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Also, and the most important stakeholders, are the crew whose lives are at stake at every