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    Man Made Disasters

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    Fire * 2.5 Hazardous materials * 2.5.1 Radiation contamination * 2.5.2 CBRNs * 2.6 Transportation * 2.6.1 Road * 2.6.2 Aviation * 2.6.3 Railroad * 2.6.4 Space Crime Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority (via mechanisms such as legal systems) can ultimately prescribe a conviction. Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently. While every crime violates

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    Apollo 13 Case Study 2

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    13 “Houston We ’ve Got A Problem” 12/1/11 Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third mission by NASA to land a space shuttle onto the moon. The crew aboard the ship consisted of James A. Lovell‚ Jr.‚ John L. Swigert‚ Jr.‚ and Fred W. Haise‚ Jr. (KSC). The launch date for Apollo 13 was set for April 11‚ 1970 at 13:13 Houston time (James A. Lovell). The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum summarizes the events of the Apollo 13 incident as “An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the

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    and Space Administration (NASA)’s Human Resource Department. This paper reviews NASA’s vision‚ their core values‚ workforce plan goals and key business strategies. Current workforce profiles are reported as well as demographics and key business challenges. This report also includes an overview of NASA’s organizational structure and a future workforce profile. A gap analysis of the workforce is enclosed as well as closing strategies. Context and Environment: In 2010‚ the Space Shuttle Program

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    Challenger Case Study

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    On the fateful morning of January 26‚ 1988‚ the challenger shuttle broke up and burst into flames within 73 seconds of lift off. Many factors have to be considered when trying to figure out the cause of this disaster‚ and also how it could have been avoided. Poor communication between NASA managers‚ Thiokol managers‚ and Thiokol engineers played a major role in aiding this disaster. For a shuttle to be cleared for take off even when a lot of odds were against its successful liftoff shows that it

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    Psychology

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    easily than anyone might have imagined because of deindividuation. * The Indianapolis Colts * Except openness to differing opinions * Finding holes in all arguments that go against the group’s desires * The 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion was the result of groupthink. * Cults are to _______________ as Abu Ghraib is to _______________. C) groupthink; deindividuation * and is effective at immunizing people from undesirable beliefs. B) inoculation effect: is

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    Elon Musk: Biography

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      1999 Sells Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million.  2000 Forms Pay Pal by merging his new online-payments startup‚ X.com‚ with Max Levchin and Peter Thiel’s Confinity.  2001 Establishes the Musk Foundation to provide grants for renewable energy‚ space‚ and medical research as well as science and engineering education.  2002 PayPal goes public; its stock rises more than 54 percent on the first day of trading. Eight months later‚ eBay acquires PayPal for $1.5 billion. Musk founds SpaceX. 2004

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    obtaining four years of qualifying engineering experience‚ and passing a Principles and Practices exam. Both exams are eight hours long. * The Space Shuttle has flown its last mission and some would argue that the future of manned space exploration by the United States is uncertain. What do you think the United States’ policy towards manned space exploration should be? Some issues (you do not need to address them all) to consider are: Should the commercial sector take a leading role? What role

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    impacted NASA in many remarkable way. While at NASA‚ Katherine calculated the trajectory for the first American in in space‚ and she coauthored/authored lots of reports. She did the calculations that helped the synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander. And she did this remarkably being the only black woman in an almost all-male and white work force. Her critical success started the Space Shuttle program‚ and lead her to becoming a memorable NASA member. (Britannica.com‚ web) Image result for katherine johnson

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    Brett Mulligan 10-2-12 Space Command Year 4096: "I remember when I was just about your age all I ever wanted to do was go to space‚” Said the old man sitting in his rocking chair. "Well did you go to space grandpa‚” the little boy said who was just about to turn five years old. “Yes I did Timmy‚ I went to the deepest reaches of space explored places no one has ever even heard of‚ I even captained my very own ship for twenty-five years"‚ he leaned back in his chair to get more comfortable

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    by the U.S government? Remember the “Space Race” against Russia? What would have happened if we had shut down NASA before that? Getting a man to the moon was a Cold War victory! Shutting down funding for space exploration would be utterly devastating. Did you know that we can do research in space that we can’t do on earth? In space‚ we can understand more about gravity‚ and how machines work in different conditions‚ special medical research can be done in space‚ and there are many ways NASA improves

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