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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Through time‚ humans have dreamed of travelling across the stars to the exoplanets we’ve spotted far away‚ but such a trip would be very long. Even to travel at the current space speed record to the nearest known exoplanet would take 43‚000 years (4). All that aside; the main issue is sustaining a human population for that long‚ if it were based generation to generation it would take roughly 600 generations of humans before they arrived based on today’s current life expectancy (3). This issue isn’t
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The Martian Chronicles is a series of almost unrelated short stories that explore the tenacity of the human race. Four separate expeditions to Mars‚ resulted in four different disasters for the crews‚ yet still the humans kept trying to conquer the frontier that was Mars. Mars as a planet tries to prove itself to be hostile to humanity with thin oxygen yet fails due to the tenacity of the colonists. “No!...I’ll be all right. I’ve got to stay here!” the words of Benjamin Driscoll‚ the Johnny Appleseed
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became engaged in a “Space Race” to see which country could get a man on the moon first and ultimately claim space for their nation. The Soviet Union led the way by sending the first satellite into space and then the first human. On April 12‚ 1961‚ Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space and make a complete orbit around the earth. Yuri was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became an international celebrity over night. He returned to earth as a national hero in his country. His
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Space travel has always been an exciting adventure for people. For centuries people have looked at the stars and wondered what else was out there. Then we started studying it and as technology and human knowledge advanced people started getting more curious. Now in the 21st century people wonder if it is really worth it to fund a mission to space that is hugely expensive‚ time consuming and difficult to generate public support for. The United States does not have a space exploration program anymore
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No one really knew how dangerous it was to put a human in space because no one had done it before. They conducted several test flights. On these test flights‚ they had three monkey astronauts named Sam‚ Ham‚ and Enos. Their flights experienced technical problems. It flew higher and faster than it was
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In the section titled November 2036: The Silent Towns‚ a man‚ Walter Gripps finds himself to be the only man left on Mars because every other human that had settled there decided to return to Earth after hearing of a nuclear war breaking out there. A swell idea...‚.He eventually can contact the last woman on Mars‚ Genevieve Selsor‚ through telephone and plans to meet her in town. Walter pictures
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On today world human are too busy doing our daily duty like going to work‚ going to school‚ moving to point A to point B. We often forgot to look up at the beautiful sky above us‚ and missed the beautiful view of the night skies. Some of us who still find time to look at the stars at night‚ and wonder what secrets it hold or how amazing it is. On the last few decade‚ we have been sending Man made machine far beyond earth like Mars. We even have space station for human to live on it for temporary
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BOB Space programme plays an important role in our life because it helps human know the world clearly. There are increasing number of money spent on space programmer in United States and Russia‚ which has had a significant impact all over the world. Although there are some advantages like contributing to economy growth and providing chance to search new planet for human to live‚ there are several disadvantages need to be considered like wasting non-renewable resources and including unforeseen
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total of 18‚724 million dollars has been spending. The process of space exploration is done by taking money and investing in new technology so they can study deeper into space. Certainly exploring space today has its benefits‚ not only for survival of human life later on‚ but can also make life on earth more convenient. Space exploration is worth the cost‚ but not how the money is being spent. Although space exploration is and could be very beneficial‚ there is no point in spending trillions of dollars
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