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    My Future Essay

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    Name: Jegathisan S/O Jeeva Title: Future Plans of My Life Class: 2M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a 14 years old smart and handsome boy. Even though‚ I am young‚ yet I had made some plans for a bright future. Firstly‚ I want to study in the International Volcanology University which is located in Hawaii. Hawaii?? Why Hawaii?? New fun‚ new faces‚ new things to do‚ I want to explore our world

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    The Challenger Disaster

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    The Challenger Disaster By: Kathy Neuner & Jeremy Rider Executive Summary Many factors must be examined to find the underlying reason for the horrible disaster of the space shuttle Challenger. We will cover both the technical causes to the disaster and the communication breakdown with NASA. We will also look at the outside pressure that NASA was receiving from the media‚ congress and the military. Recommendations for NASA and anyone in the communication field will be given. These recommendations

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    up into small parts on the Atlantic Ocean and the banks of central Florida on US time 11:39 am. The reason behind the disintegration was the O-Ring seal in the right solid rocket booster failed at the liftoff of the shuttle.The failure caused a breach in the joint it sealed‚allowing the high-pressure gas from the solid rocket motor to reach outside and attack upon the booster attachment hard wire and the fuel tank. This caused the separation of right-hand booster attachment and structural failure

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    failures that led the disastrous events on the 28th of January‚ 1986 were inexcusable. The reason the Challenger Space Shuttle blew up 73 seconds after launch was the result of a faulty sealing system which allowed exhaust flames from the Solid-Fuel Rocket Boosters (SRB) to vent directly on the external tank‚ rupturing the tank and causing the explosion. There was excessive erosion on the O-ring in the booster field joints. The launch had also taken place in untested temperature conditions and in

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    e solid rocket booster problem was rooted in a design flaw that NASA and their contractor‚ Morton Thiokol‚ failed to address. The engineers at Morton Thiokol expressed concerns about the launch‚ as the predicted low temperatures would affect the O-Ring’s ability to seal properly. However‚ due to NASA’s ambitious launch schedule‚ the program managers were appalled at the thought of delaying the launch. One manager from NASA remarked‚ “My God‚ Thiokol‚ when do you want me to launch‚ next April? [1]”

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    Notes

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    6/30/2014   2   The science of Decision-making 1   6/30/2014   3   Speed ventures Instructions   Get  into  groups   Reach  a  group  decision  to  race  or  not  race   Assumptions   Speed  Ventures  gets  to  keep  the  oil  contract  except  if  the   engine  blows   Goodstone  has  given  $40‚000  for  the  Pocono  Race‚     But  your  racing  teams  gets  1  Million  if  you  finish  in  top  5   Rules   You  have  30  minutes  to  reach  a  decision   Person  with

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    My father has taught me consistently that giving up isn’t an option. Along with my mother came the idea of protection. Protecting yourself‚ while not giving up on anything in life adapted me to be the individual I am right now. Both parents‚ have never given up and have supported my growth as a young woman. The days where everything comes crashing down there wasn’t giving up involved‚ because of the life lessons I learned. Attending a University‚ buying a car‚ and living comfortably with my sexuality

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    How does the theory of groupthink apply to the 1986 Challenger disaster? Here is a brief trailer for a larger analysis of the disaster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K2vqVAG7iI Do you‚ or does the literature‚ think that NASA ’s organizational culture was also to blame for the 2003 Columbia disaster‚ or was the problem of groupthink alleviated in the intervening 17 years? Please use your text and online research about the administrative issues that led to this disaster. Remember to cite

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    The causes and effects of the Challenger and Columbia disasters It was the day in the history of America wherein the people had a great expectation of a mission that would take a civilian for the first time into the space by launched the Challenger‚ in 1986‚ but something unexpected happened when the shuttle explored shortly after liftoff and claiming the lives of all crew members onboard. That was not the only exploration of the American history‚ another similar disaster was the exploration

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    October Sky Research Paper

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    launch rockets into the sky. This is the main correlation between October Sky and the process of becoming an entrepreneur. The Big Creek Missile Agency’s first rocket could be considered a success or failure depending on how you view their accomplishment. The rocket was constructed of an empty tube of a flashlight with a hole in one side filled with cherry bomb powder. After seeing the Sputnik satellite in the sky‚ Homer found a passion for learning about and involving himself with rockets. A similar

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