Challenger Explosion Jade De La Torre Montebello Intermediate School 8th Grade Abstract The Challenger shuttle explosion was a devastating time for Americans, resulting in seven deaths. This explosion changed the United States’ space program, NASA. The Challenger shuttle contained six astronauts and a teacher from New Hampshire who had won a special contest that would allow one teacher to go up into space with a full crew and teach students from across the country from
January 28, 1986, the world was stunned by the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.” Many Americans around the world gathered around their televisions to watch the NASA Challenger flight 51-L launch into space. Everyone sat with anticipation as the launch time was getting closer. Finally when it was time, The Challenger was launched and within 73 seconds into the mission, The Challenger exploded. Americans were horrified as they sat and watched the space ship be engulfed with flames and not one
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger launched for its tenth and final time. The shuttle came apart midair in a massive explosion and landed not as a glider but as a mangled mess of debris. The mess of debris included what had been one of NASA’s greatest creations and the scattered remains of seven brave men and women who dedicated their lives to science (Challenger 1). The explosion of the Challenger was a horrible event that touched the lives of people all across America. The national
The Challenger Space Shuttle disaster was an awful shock to the United States. The Challenger was the first shuttle to be destroyed. One specific crew member will always be remembered because she was a teacher at a school. The Challenger explosion left a huge mark of improvement in the space industry. The Challenger Space Shuttle mission shocked the entire world when it blew up barely off the launch pad because off defective materials on the shuttle. The Challenger was originally meant to be a
The Challenger space shuttle disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, causing the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft exploded off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:38am. This disaster shocked the nation because we thought that NASA was past the days of failed launches and deaths of American astronauts. President Ronald Reagan issued an investigation on the Challenger failure, known as the Rogers Commission
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster The space shuttle Challenger was one of NASA’s greatest triumphs as well as NASA’s darkest tragedy’s (Howell E). The challenger was the second shuttle to reach space in April 1983 and successfully completed nine missions (Howell E). The Challengers tenth launch on January 23 1986, the shuttle exploded seconds after liftoff (Howell E). Killing all seven of the crewmember, the accident changed the NASA’s space program forever (Howell E). Some of the contributing
a breathtaking and petrifying incident when the space shuttle Challenger burst into flames shortly after liftoff. The infamous “Challenger Disaster” took place when the Kennedy Space Center launched a space craft (STS-51-L) which exploded in mid air taking the lives of full crew of 7 members aboard. The explosion took place after 73 seconds after launch. This disaster occurred due to engineering and administrative problems. The cause of the explosion was due to improper and faulty design of the sealing
more about space. The NASA Challenger explosion was one of the worst mistakes made by mankind, but despite this disaster, it played an important role in improving communications within ASA, safety in space travel, and the redesign of the 0-Rings. As the engineers were building the Challenger. They were having some difficulties about the rocket. On the first two launches. The engineers saw that there were still some difficulties. So they delayed the first two launches. The third launch, NASA was tired
• What is Groupthink? Explain this phenomenon in your own words and support with examples from scholarly sources. • Choose one of the following situations and explain the ramifications of Groupthink: The Bay of Pigs, OR 1986 NASA Challenger Tragedy, OR 2012 Penn State Cover-Up of child abuse allegations (Joe Paterno). Part One Groupthink is a style of decision making that has an excessive tendency among group members to seek concurrence (Kassin, Fein, Markus, 2014). When looking at groupthink