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    Santhosh Hari Krishnan Professor M Gaboury Law 1038 27 November 2016 SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION Introduction: The space shuttle challenger took away the life of 7 crew members on January 28‚ 1986. The spacecraft was broke 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

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    “The Tenth and Final Mission of the Challenger Space Shuttle” The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded seventy three seconds after liftoff. All the crew on board died on January 28‚ 1986‚ all of America was in shock. How and why did it happen. Roger Bogilay told NASA the the o’rings on the shuttle would not seal right in the extreme cold. NASA previously delayed the launch six times before liftoff. At liftoff black smoke came out of the right engine booster for two seconds due to the oring being burned

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    and do better on the next one. In life there are horrible disasters‚ things not going the way they were supposed too like the Space Shuttle Challenger. This shuttle shows that just because something bad happened at the moment it was still worth it. The people aboard this ship will be remembered for being so courageous and being part of such a huge event in history. Because of this event there was more motivation for future space shuttles as ronald reagan said “It’s all apart of

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    On January 28‚ 1986‚ at approximately 11:39a.m. the space shuttle challenger exploded in front of the whole world‚ whether you were sitting‚ standing‚ or listening‚ it was a tragedy that should have been and could have been easily prevented. It involved physically killing seven passengers aboard the space shuttle Challenger and mentally killing their families and close friends that were not aboard. If only NASA had just listen and Morton Thiokol stood by their engineers‚ then maybe those seven passengers

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    For the first speech I decided to analyze the “Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy Address from president Ronald Reagan. This speech was pretty easy to identify if it was an informative or persuasive speech. The president was addressing the nation to inform them about a tragedy that had taken place the very same day. From reading through this week’s lesson‚ I would say that concept President Reagan used was speaking to entertain. The lesson stated this type of informative was used for speeches at occasions

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    Space Shuttle Challenger disaster INTRODUCTION: The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28‚ 1986‚ when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight‚ leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic 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

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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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    The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster – Organisational Causes Introduction The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster has been well investigated and analysed as a typical management case by numerous researchers. Although the disaster is the direct result of a technical issue‚ the hardware failure of a solid rocket booster (SRB) O-ring caused by abnormally low temperatures‚ there is an unambiguous relationship between the disaster and numerous organizational factors such as communication (Gouran et

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    The Challenger space shuttle exploded shortly after launch‚ killing all of the crewmembers aboard at the time including the “first teacher in space”‚ Christa McAuliffe. This disaster was felt all across the world as people looked in aww that what happened to the crewmembers. The explosion ended up call NASA a total of about two billion dollars and then years of distrust for the organization. After the Explosion NASA launched a major investigation to determine why the shuttle had exploded. In the

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    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 your sources and

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