In the early spring of 1986, The Challenger was scheduled to launch in the morning from the Kennedy Space Center. The Challenger had seven passengers. One of these passengers was a Christa McAuliffe, a social studies teacher from New Hampshire. She was the first ordinary citizen to be going to space. The social studies teacher had won the opportunity through NASA’s Teachers in space program. The spacecraft was in the air only seventy-three seconds before it exploded and broke apart into the ocean. Everyone was in shock. All the passengers were killed tragically. This put a horrible mark on NASA’s reputation. Some even wanted to close the exploration to space. American was in mourning and everyone felt the blow of the tragedy. However, President Ronald Reagan saw it fit to continue space exploration. He gave an argument and a tribute to America and the families of the lost passengers. His tribute swayed American to see the silver lining in the tragedy and understand why we must continue the journey to explore space.…
In the video, The Deadly Deception, is an all around made story on savage conduct in government kept up obvious examination. The piece records the forty year examination of untreated syphilis in around 400 African-American men from Macon County, Alabama which started in 1932. The use of parties with two survivors of the examination, Herman Shaw and Charles Pollard, and directors in the fields of examination, system, and social adaptabilities, close awesome film taken amidst the trial, results in a bona fide and startling outline of the abuse of human subjects in investigative examination.…
that it’s just like any of the few books I have read through out past, well written, captivating and…
Striving to be the first nation into space means we will have to work longer, harder, and faster than competing nations. That means this program will demand more involvement and focus than ever before. This space program is here to be heard by the American People. With its Manned Spacecraft Center, the city of Houston will be the heart of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). This large scientific and engineering community will create a great number of new companies and also open up thousands of new positions. This city, state, and region will benefit tremendously with growth.…
The passage from Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges explains how “the most essential skill in political theater and a consumer is artifice.” In political theater and a consumer, being artifice means to deceive or trick someone for your own benefit. Moreover, he argues that an image-based culture communicates through narratives, pictures, and pseudo-drama and those who don’t are ignored. Being artifice is technically not the greatest thing you can do, but it works well with many leaders out there in which they will keep using for years to come. Hedges explains that without the use of artifice, leaders would be ignored unlike those who do use it.…
2. So far, I haven’t got the big picture of the conflict in this book. This book is very complicated, yet thoughtful. The author brings us back to some years in the past and that must be hard. For me who likes to write, it’s difficult to keep the…
Honestly, at first, when I was reading the book, I was so confused and bored out of my mind. But then, you get closer and closer to the ending where you want to keep reading to figure out what happens next and all the pieces just seem to add up together. Therefore, once again, I fully recommend…
Space exploration was magical for my generation. If you asked any child, especially boys, what they wanted to be when they grew up, many would proudly announce “An astronaut!”. That does not seem to be the case with the youth of today as our space program is not the glory we once knew. For the majority of Americans, the Challenger Disaster was just that, a disaster. After watching the documentaries and listening to the opinions expressed by both experts and those actually in charge of the lethal decisions in the launch, my views have changed. It is hard to imagine money and appearance were the driving motives to launch a shuttle with known complications. The fact the space program…
When we feel like we’ve failed, we sometimes want to give up in fear that we will get the same result. In 1986, Ronald Reagan knew very well that NASA’s mission to send the Challenger into space had failed. People lost their lives that day. But he stood by NASA and said, “We’ll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.” Reagan encouraged…
The positive aspects of this text is that it is really interesting and has a really good and strong story line. This book is not confusing but very easy to understand what is happening and it has many details to help tell the story. The text is very organised and also has flashbacks throughout the text which help you understand and keep you interested and always thinking. We can see this when Evie experiences a flashback in the middle of the book of one of her dreams she had about a specific place, which didn’t make sense to her at the time, but now when she’s at that place, she…
Using the competing values framework, the type of organization culture represented by NASA is labeled as a market culture. According to the competing values framework, the culture of an organization can be identified by two different sets of values. One is that of flexibility and discretion versus stability and control. The other identifies the focus on internal affairs as opposed to the external environment. NASA can be identified as a market culture because it has an interest in stability and control yet is heavily influences by its external environment. This interest in stability and control for the NASA organization has come under a great deal of scrutiny since the Columbia Disaster. James Oberg wrote, "experienced space workers, both those still inside the program as well as retired, say this widespread attitude of being too smart to need outside advice has created a culture resistant to outside advice and experience. He went on to clarify that "most workers at NASA have only worked at NASA since graduation." And "the culture can also be powerful because it is so pervasive, since it is rarely exposed to outside influences." These comments illustrate the need for stability and control within NASA. Of course, NASA is a government-funded agency, which is, where the external environment gets involved…
A commemorative speech relies on the extensive use of “creative and subtle” language to be effective (Lucas, 2011, p. 359). In Reagan’s speech, he appears to be sincere and honest. He attempts to deliver the speech on a more personal level when he states, “Nancy and I are painted to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger” (Reagan, 1986). Reagan also integrates phrases of “we” and “us” into his speech to inspire a united front of the entire nation in mourning the loss of the “Challenger Seven”. However, he also acknowledged that the journey as a nation of space exploration will go on to advance in science and technology.…
In NASA, the Mars science lab rover is acknowledged, over a budget at 2.5 billion dollars. Although Obama’s Fiscal plan for 2013 would incise NASA’s funds from 587 million dollars to 360 million dollars, no quantity of money is worth Mars exploration. Mars is still merely a rocky surface in the midst of no indication of water or active geology. Space exploration is exceptionally expensive to the citizens of the United States; the government could unquestionably use this money to better the country where the people live. Exploration costs millions of dollars which is completely unnecessary to provide the NASA space program.…
In 2004, President George W. Bush said he wanted astronauts to return to the moon. Eventually, he imagined travel to Mars. To do this, NASA needed to build a new spaceship. This would be expensive. NASA could no longer spend $4 billion a year on the shuttle program. President Barack Obama has since dropped the moon program. But he believes that NASA should build a giant rocket. This would be used to send astronauts to an asteroid. Later, it might be used for trips to Mars.…
Too much unnecessary money is spent on NASA. "NASA has a budget of about $17.5 billion" to spend however they chose (NASA's $17.5 billion budget).Usually spending money on things that the ordinary person does not see, as in finding the temperature of one of Jupiter's moons. NASA also has project devoted to helping the overall earth, like their project which is trying to find a solution to global warming. For the past couple of years NASA has received the about…