Cris Goodin Professor Gail Cullum Space Flight and Exploration January 15‚ 2013 Research Paper: N.A.S.A The National Aeronautics and Space Administration‚ more commonly known as N.A.S.A‚ was started after the Soviet Union sent a satellite named Sputnik into space the year before. They are a government agency in the United States of America that has taken on the task of researching science and technology related to space and air [1]. NASA has gone from one amazing accomplishment
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On January 28‚ 1986 the Challenger exploded. The challenger was a program for Christa McAuliffe to learn more about space. This was suppose to help school children learn and advance their education in space & Technology. Christa McAuliffe went on the challenger with 7 trained astronauts. Christa McAuliffe was a teacher from New Hampshire. The challenger was supposed to be a huge advancement in space learning. Unfortunately‚ 73 seconds after lift-off the challenger had blown up. This was a big tragedy
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Space is the final frontier for all human here on Earth. It has introduced unimaginable worlds that are unknown and undiscovered. It has shown the world that these so called “Impossible missions” become reality in front of our eyes. No one has ever believed in humanity that one day we will have the ability to send objects deep into space. Voyager 1 which is about 18‚000‚000‚000 km away from the earth‚ making it the furthest man made object in space. This great accomplishment could not have been possible
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Is NASA’s Space Program Worthwhile to Continue Funding? The world has anxiously followed the Mars arrival of the space vessel Curiosity. Recently‚ on October 31‚ 2012‚ Curiosity ’s analysis of Martian soil found it to be eerily similar to that of Hawaii. This mission‚ like so many before it‚ exemplifies NASA’s commitment to acquiring knowledge about the worlds beyond ours. NASA‚ though struggling with budget cuts and the end of the shuttle mission‚ is still making great progress with its current
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The Challenger was described in a book about 1960s American cars as Dodge’s "answer to the Mustang and Camaro. It was one of two Chrysler E-body cars‚ the other being the slightly smaller Plymouth Barracuda. "Both the Challenger and Barracuda were available in a staggering number of trim and option levels" and were intended "to compete against cars like the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang‚ and to do it while offering virtually every engine in Chrysler’s inventory." However‚ the Challenger was "a
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We remember the tenth mission of the space shuttle Challenger that ended on January 28‚ 1986 in a catastrophic disaster. Seven astronauts were killed that day when the Challenger they were piloting‚ exploded at 72 seconds into the flight. Thesis: The Challenger exploded because the solid rocket booster O-rings did not seal properly which allowed hot combustion gases to leak from the side of the booster and burn through the external fuel tank. The
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C hallenger and Columbia disasters from a n Engineering Ethics standpoint I ntroduction: Very widely-used case studies in engineering ethics are the two failures of the space shuttles Challenger in 1986 during its liftoff and Columbia in 2003 during its reentry into the Earth’s orbit. What is interesting about the two space shuttle failures is that they had similar circumstances in them. Engineers recognized technical issues that might lead to the failures and communicated serious safety concerns
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not be so harmful but on a higher level project they can be deadly. In 1986‚ the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during launch‚ taking the lives of six astronauts and one teacher. Questions arose about what factors led to this disaster. I will discuss these factors in terms of general engineering disasters. In an article “Explaining Disasters” (Harris 1995)‚ three factors are discussed which cause disasters: bad management‚ engineering faults and bad ethics. Success for any company depends
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The Space Travel and Research Introduction Space contains the planets‚ countless galaxies and milky ways. Man has been able to go to space and collect pictures of the sun‚ the planets and the moon. Man has landed on the moon and he is trying to find out the existence of life on other planets. Telecommunication‚ weather forecasting‚ radio and television programmes etc. are all monitored by satellites in space. There are also military stations and spy satellites in space which pose a threat
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Space exploration and the space program in general‚ have been an important part of our past successes as a country. Today‚ as our government looks at budget reduction and cost cutting measures‚ the space program is being scrutinized more than ever. Should the space program be cut or should it be reinvented? To fully understand why the space program is so controversial‚ one must first understand where the space program began. Shortly after the end of World War II (1939-45)‚ the U.S. and the
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