• 1. The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster • 2. The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster At 11:38 am on January 28 th 1986, the 25 th Space Shuttle mission began with Challenger lifting off the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Approximately 73 seconds later, the Challenger was engulfed in a fireball. Seven crew members lost their lives.
The Challenger Disaster “Sometimes, when we reach for the stars, we fall short. But we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain,” said President Ronald Reagan on January 28, 1986 as he spoke of the Challenger’s tragic event. STS 51-L was in the beginning stage of the United States’ space shuttle program. The space shuttle Challenger exploded after seventy-three seconds of glory and fame. It involved the death of seven crewmembers including the first civilian (Teacher-in-Space) chosen to go into space and it also destroyed the orbiter’s satellite cargo.
Space Flight: Challenger Disaster On January 28th, 1986, the first shuttle disaster that resulted in loss of life had occurred. This is not to say that there had been other incidents, but this was the first incident that resulted in catastrophic mission failure and a total loss of crew aboard the space shuttle. In 1976, NASA revealed the first reusable spacecraft, named today, the space shuttle. In 5 years the first shuttle mission would take place, headed by the space shuttle Columbia, it wouldn’t be until 1983 that Challenger, NASA’s second shuttle would take its’ maiden voyage flight. Challenger would have 9 successful missions prior to 1986.
In August, 2007, the space shuttle Endeavor suffered minor damage to the heat shield tiles during liftoff. After the Columbia burned up on reentry in 2003 due to damaged tiles, NASA developed a protocol for repairing damaged tiles while in orbit. After much consideration, the decision was made NOT to attempt to repair the tiles on Endeavor while in orbit. Find a minimum of three different references discussing this incident and the decision made by NASA. Summarize the reasons both for and against repairing the tile while in orbit.
Columbia Disaster ABSTRACT On re-entry the space shuttle Columbia burned up in the earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated into a maelstrom of debris that stretched across all most of Texas and Louisiana. At launch foam loss collision caused a weakened structural integrity in the left wing. The disaster killed all crew members. This disaster occurred about 40 miles above the earth’s surface only a few minutes before the shuttle was scheduled to land. AUTHOR POV The Columbia was an NASA orbiter in operation from 1981 to 2003.
Subzero temperatures were recorded every month throughout the winter at Little America with the highest temperature being 17°F on August 19. The sun came up on the horizon for the first time on August 23. A few months later on October 13th, investigation of the Queen Maud Mountains was to begin and be completed before spring arrived. Approximately 100 miles south of Little America, the plane’s engine began to leak a significant amount of fuel and the emergency radio had failed to work. Eventually, other pilots had flown out to their rescue, suspecting they had run out of fuel after not returning on time.
The case has been solved by NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) within a year after the accident. The main cause of the accident came out to be Pilots’ error and found that he was totally unaware of the situation that the aircraft was going through that led to the mishap. Now, Genair being an airline that is comparable to Colgan (Regional Airline), as a manager all the precautions must be taken and necessary steps should be taken at every level considering the Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash. The purpose of this report is to analyze the failures and make recommendation and conclusion that proves to be useful for the safety of Genair. 2) INTRODUCTION A bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 operating as Continental Connection Flight 3407 departed late from Newark on 12th February, 2009 at 2120 EST.
The Bermuda triangle was created through several magazine articles in the early 1950s. Flight 19 disappeared in December of 1945 but it wasn’t into the Bermuda triangle and it wasn't sudden — it took four hours for each of the TMB avengers to drop out of the sky. The reasons for the flight’s failure are many-fold: 1) Navigation Problem 1 — was flawed — and would return the flight at least 10 miles north of NAS Ft. Lauderdale. 2) None of the five aircraft were refuled prior to take off. It was the 19th flight of the day.
The Moon Landing Briefly describe the background of the debate. The United States’ Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the moon on 20 July, 1969. Nine years earlier, U.S. President John F. Kennedy had said that by the end of the decade the country would put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth. There have been six manned landings up until 1976, as no landings have occurred since then. The Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA and members of other organizations.
400,000 people were involved in making the Apollo 11 moon landing happen. The Apollo Moon landings were among the most completely documented and observed events in history. The conspiracy "theories" that claim otherwise are a bunch of nonsense without even a single compelling piece of evidence. Most of the questions raised are based on ignorance of basic physics and optics. Video special effects were in their infancy in the late 60's so that faking a landing on the Moon would probably have been more difficult than actually going there, and it seems highly unlikely that the hundreds or even thousands of people who would have had to be involved in such a conspiracy would have kept it a secret for so long.