Challenger's Substrate-51L Mission

On January 28, 1986, the United States eagerly watched as the Challenger Space Shuttle launched from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Florida. On board were seven crew members to include a teacher from New Hampshire. Within 73 seconds after liftoff the Challenger exploded, and it was followed by President Ronald Reagan's public national Challenger address. On this specific day, President Reagan had arranged to deliver the State of Union Address, but instead he spoke to the nation about the tragedy that just unfolded in front of millions of Americans eyes. President Reagan's Challenger speech offers encouragement and solace to all who was impacted and watched, he also commended the bravery of the seven heroic crew members while reassuring future space exploration.

On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union shocked the people of the United States by successfully launching the first Earth orbiting satellite, Sputnik. America's first satellite

Millions of people all over the world watched as Apollo 11 was launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969. Two hours after it left Earth, the rocket Lunar Command and Landing Modules separated from the main rocket, and three days later the crew entered lunar orbit. A day later the landing section separated from the Lunar Command Module and landed on the moon.

In 1986, Nelson became the second member of Congress to travel into space. He was a Payload Specialist on 's STS-61-C mission from January 12 to 18, 1986. Columbia landed at Edwards AFB at 5:59 a.m. PST, on January 18. Mission elapsed time was 6 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes, 51 seconds. It was the last successful Space Shuttle flight before the Challenger.

Crew 697 has a 100% advancement rate, with all participating youth earning additional awards, including 4 Eagle Scouts. 100% of our high school graduates went on to attend a University. The Crew has performed over 800 man-hours of community service to churches, fraternal organizations, and state

Although there is disagreement on the precise date that the Space Race began, the moment that it became an important competition that was in the forefront of the minds of everyday Americans is on April 12, 1961 when Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth in Vostok 1. (citation). This event created a feeling amongst the American public that the Russians were further ahead in science and technology than the United States, as well as the fear that the Soviets could use their superior technology to be better able to attack the USA from a distance. Shortly after Gagarin’s flight, the United States launched astronaut Alan Sheppard into

It occurred on January 28, 1986, when shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after takeoff leading to death 7 crew members. Some of them died due to explosion and some of them due to impact with ocean. Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster failed at lift off. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand attachment and the structural failure of the external tank. Due to this shuttle was thrown sideways into the Mach 1.8 wind stream and broke

Ronald McNair was born on October 21st 1950 in South Carolina. McNair graduated a University in North Carolina around 1971. After graduating from that college he went on to study at Institute of Technology in Massachusetts, he graduated from there in 1976. What is significant about McNair is he was the second African American to be launched into space. In his career he logged more than 191 hours of flight time. Another crew member who was part of the Challenger’s final mission was Dick Scobee. Scobee was born in 1939 in Washington. Scobee had been a part of many other mission in the past. His first mission was in the April of 1984. In his career Scobee achieved more than 7,000 hours of flying a variety of different aircraft.

The Space Race took place in 1955 during the Cold War which was a fight in the world to promote communism. The Space Race was a competition endorsed by the United States and the Soviet Union to decide who had had the best

The Space Race began in 1955 when the US and the Soviet Union announced that they would be launching satellites into orbit. The USSR formed a commission whose goal was to beat the US in putting a satellite into space. On October 4, 1957 the USSR placed the first successful satellite into orbit which gave them the lead in the Space Race for awhile. It was called Sputnik 1. The US then launched

The launch of the Challenger shuttle was highly popular and publicized event because the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had conducted a nationwide search, searching for a teacher to send on the flight. NASA wanted to show people of America and the world that space traveling can be routine like traveling through an airplane. After a long search, NASA found the teacher, Christa McAuliffe. President Reagan was conducting a search addressed to primary and secondary schools looking for an American to fly aboard the Space Shuttle, which is how Ms. McAuliffe heard NASA’s nationwide search on a car radio one evening. She was not sure if she would be able to be part of such exciting adventure when she procrastinated and submitted in her

The picture from a rocket launch dated May 5, 1961 was really cool to see and to imagine that someone got to be that close to something so significant in our history is just neat to think about. After doing some research about the meaning behind the date I found that “NASA astronaut Alan B. Shepard launched at 9:34 a.m. aboard his Freedom 7 capsule powered by a Redstone booster to become the first American in space, his flight lasting 15 minutes and 28 seconds” (NASA,2015). This was a major achievement for the U.S. because “23 days before Yuri Gagarin of the

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish” -John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961

NASA X-43 was an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight. It was a fragment of the X-plane series and specifically of NASA's Hyper-X program. It has set many airspeed records in the category of jet-propelled aircraft. The X-43 is the fastest aircraft as per records with the speed of approximately Mach

NASA contributed to a number of successes in American history. During the past, the organization has rapidly acquired a number changes that has created an opportunity to expand and improve Knowledge Management (KM). Similar to many other important organizations, NASA has frequently pursued ways to capture knowledge into their information systems assuming that it could be managed best when it 's captured in a system for later retrieval. In the past 10 years, the budgets on their missions have been reduced, missions have multiplied ten-fold, and scientists and engineers have been overwhelmed by the extreme challenges. The most important factors that are addressed includes the importance of learning, (FBC) faster, better, cheaper implications, and knowledge management that supports innovation in the future.