taken by the mission control team when they found out a piece of insulating foam could damage the shuttle and cause 7 people to lose their lives. The previously achieved success led to overconfidence and a belief that no problem would bring down the mission. The upper echelon of management was only placed an emphasis on the launch rather than the safety of the astronaut’s or the quality of the shuttle. The engineers thought that the foam strike was very important and could cause a problem‚ but their
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Could space be the next commercial frontier? When you look up at night at the stars‚ what do you see? Many now see the sky as the next commercial frontier. When John F. Kennedy gave his well known speech regarding space travel on September12‚ 1962‚ he stated “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things‚ not because they are easy‚ but because they are hard‚ because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills
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using his instruments that the shuttle is off course. Self-regulation IV. Self-control: Gene has tremendous self-control when he has to handle the high carbon-dioxide situation V. Trustworthiness: Gene demonstrates trust by enforcing the fact to his colleagues and the flight-crew that he was bringing the men back alive. VI. Conscientiousness: Gene‚ as well as the staff of the command center are responsible for their individual roles of guiding the shuttle back safely VII. Adaptability:
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Technologies for Space Exploration Describe technologies for space travel: -Multistage rockets * Propelled by the recoil pressure of the burning gases it emits as it burns fuel * Most modern‚ high performance rockets are multistage * Multiple rockets stacked on top of each other that detach separately * Reasons for staging are * To improve performance by eliminating dead weight during flight * A huge‚ empty fuel tank is merely dead weight so it is dropped off
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Dominic Muthert Professor Toomey English 1001 25 September 2014 Reagan’s The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address In the presidential speech‚ “The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address‚” Ronald Reagan states his sympathy for the seven lives that were lost in the devastating explosion and how the space program will continue to move forward. Reagan address’s the audience when he states‚ “We mourn their loss as a nation together.” In the second paragraph‚ Reagan illistartes “Nineteen
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration America’s Spaceport America’s Spaceport John F. Kennedy Space Center “This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it . . . we mean to lead it.” President John F. Kennedy Sept. 12‚ 1962 Origins Origins T he John F. Kennedy Space Center -- America’s Spaceport -- is the doorway to space. From its unique facilities‚ humans and machines begin to explore the solar system
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A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis and bombards a swath of land from America’s East Coast including New York City through Finland. NASA discovers that a rogue comet the size of Texas passed through the asteroid belt and pushed forward a large amount of space debris. The core of the comet‚ now considered an asteroid‚ will collide with Earth in 18 days‚ creating another extinction event. NASA scientists‚ led by Dan Truman‚ plan to trigger a nuclear detonation 800 ft
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manage to find. It was Stefan Gordy’s 47th birthday and he was again alone as he had been so many years before. He was traveling the cosmos in a PR4107 space shuttle on his quest to find the brightest star he had ever seen. The shuttle was bought shortly after the end of World War III due to the sudden mass production of LiveEasy shuttles making the cost for him to own the highest quality one on the market for $12‚000‚000. Stefan spent the day searching as he did everyday‚ and at the end‚ he still
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NASA was created with the intent to establish military culture‚ US dominance over USSR. Morton Thiokol‚ Inc.‚ an aerospace company‚ manufactured the solid propellant rocket motors manufactured the booster rockets SRB used to launch the Challenger Shuttle. Morton Thiokol called for a teleconference‚ fortnight before the launch had been scheduled to discuss the O ring problem. The Challenger launch was disaster due to various reasons: 1. The engineers at Morton-Thiokol knew that the O-rings did
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Russell Howell Mrs. Grandolfo English 12‚ Period 3 February 7‚ 2012 Reaping the Benefits of Space Exploration Curiosity has been the driving force behind the human race ever since the first Homo sapiens have started walking. Our very survival and dominance of Planet Earth has only resulted from our ability to solve problems and innovate to accomplish our goals. This uncanny problem solving ability of the Human race doesn’t even restrict us terrestrially‚ as it has propelled us into the “heavens”
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