Ocean‚ off the coast of central Florida‚ United States‚ at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed‚ allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand SRBs aft attachment
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the management bodies of companies associated with this project than natural reasons. The whistleblowing led to the loss of billions of dollars and more importantly loss of 7 innocent lives. The space shuttle was propelled by the two attached Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) and an external fuel tank. The SRBs were joined to the External Tank. aOnce the SRBs ignited‚ hot gases heated the rubber O rings and they eroded to seal the joints. SRB joint design had a serious flaw in it and the engineers knew
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Rachel White The Challenger On January 28th‚ 1986‚ the Challenger‚ a space shuttle‚ was to make an important journey into outer space. The challenger launch took the attention from many Americans. A woman named Christa McAuliffe‚ an average American school teacher was also on the journey. Christa McAuliffe was going to give school lessons to students from space. Children were anxious to Learn from space‚ and adults everywhere were fascinated. The morning of January 28‚ 1986 was going to be
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the cause of the accident. Photos and videotape of the launch showed a fire plume escaping from the right solid rocket booster. The flame grew larger and eventually burned through the bottom connecting strut that held the booster to the external tank. (Cole‚ Michael D.pg.22) The photos and videos helped find out what exactly happened during the explosion. Failure of one of the solid rocket booster joints‚ including the rubber O-rings‚ was determined to have caused the accident. The black smoke‚ the
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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 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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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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