companions slept‚ Were toiling upward in the night.’ - H W Longfellow “That’s one small step for a man‚ one giant leap for mankind”‚ said Neil Armstrong‚ stepping on to the moon’s surface on 21st‚ July 1969. Kalpana Chawla steeped into space‚ not once but twice. It proved to be a great leap for womankind especially for Indian woman. It was the bridge between the impossible and the possible. Kalpana said‚ “You can’t cross a great chasm in two short steps; it needs one big leap.”0
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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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Characteristics of a high performance team are evident throughout the movie. Armageddon is an action adventure film in which a meteor the size of Texas is careening towards the earth. NASA scientists discover it after a meteor shower destroys the Space Shuttle Atlantis‚ killing the entire crew. They only have 18 days before the asteroid destroys the earth. NASA devises a plan to insert a nuclear bomb 800 feet inside the asteroid‚ when detonated‚ will split the asteroid into two pieces that will safely
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The space shuttle‚ Columbia launched on January 16th‚ 2003. On February 1st of the same year‚ the shuttle fell back to Earth at an alarming rate with technical malfunctions. Eventually‚ the space shuttle blew up and unfortunately killed all of the astronauts on board. It was later found that this piece of foam broke off of the external tank during the initial takeoff. As a result‚ gas slowly penetrated the space shuttle. As the space shuttle made its approach‚ readings were lost and eventually communication
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Just Shook His Hand‚ Can You Believe It? Letters‚ Photos‚ and Drawings MR. FEYNMAN GOES TO WASHINGTON: INVESTIGATING THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER Preliminaries Committing Suicide The Cold Facts Check Six! Gumshoes Fantastic Figures An Inflamed Appendix The Tenth Recommendation Meet the Press Afterthoughts Appendix F: Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle 11 11 20 54 60 63 69 72 76 83 Part 2 Part 1 Contents 113 113 116 119 154 159 177 189 199 206 212 220 6 EPILOGUE
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Columbia Accident Case Study This is an edited version of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report released in August‚ 2003. It provides a comprehensive and often sobering example of management lapses that have severe consequences. The original report was over 280 pages. This edited version eliminates the much of the technical discussion and focuses instead on the organizational factors that lead to the accident. You may obtain the entire report from http://www.caib.us/news/report/default
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CHALLENGER SPACE SHUTTLE- CASE ANALYSIS On January 28‚ 1986‚ seven astronauts were killed when the space shuttle they were piloting‚ the Challenger‚ exploded just over a minute into the flight. The failure of the solid rocket booster O-rings to seat properly allowed hot combustion gases to leak from the side of the booster and burn through the external fuel tank. The failure of the O-ring was attributed to several
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research on Reentry and Deorbit burn procedure and discussed how it is achieved. Now in this interim report we discussed on how the space shuttle maneuver does and positions itself in reentry. Furthermore we researched on how the shuttle is protected from extreme heat during reentry and extremely cold temperature in the space. The Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System: OMS is a system that contains liquid propellant rocket engines that are installed in the aft section
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lightweight space shuttle in the 1970’s‚ but they needed a test vehicle in those times‚ computer technology was not as good‚ and advanced like now so they had no way to see how the shuttle would react to heat‚ and stress according to Nasa’s website.The Challenger broke apart 73 seconds while in liftoff on January 28‚ 1986 which killed the 7 astronauts on board‚ and the reason for the incident was because of a booster failure.On April 4th‚ 1983‚ and saw the first spacewalk of the space shuttles program
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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
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