Sharon Christa Corrigan Mcauliffe's Teachings

Rockwell, the shuttle’s primary contractor, did not support the launch due to the possibility of ice leaving the structure and damaging the thermal shield tiles during takeoff. Their concerns were relayed to NASA, but in such a way that NASA chose to proceed with the launch [2]. Though this was eventually determined to be a non-issue in the Challenger launch, the true nature of the problems that can occur when an object strikes the shuttle during takeoff would not be learned until 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry due to damage of a heat shield tile that occurred during takeoff [2]--[3].

She also created and was the first Director of NASA’s Office of Exploration. When she completed her investigation, she was sent to Washington D.C, for long-range planning. After the incident, Ride produced a report entitled, “Leadership and America’s Future in Space.” (Ride). After Dr. Ride left NASA, she became a teacher; a professor actually. She wanted to make sure that students knew and got to love space just as much, if not more, as she did. As a Physics professor, in 1989 Ride joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. She is also the Director of the California Space Institute at the university. Ride’s favorite subjects were always science and math, making NASA and teaching perfect careers for her; something she loved to do day in and out.

Out of 2,000 she was one of the 15 chosen on June 4,1987 She had become the first African American women to be admitted into the training program. Unfortunately the challenger and columbia shuttle’s had just destroyed when she applied her resume because it took a while for NASA to recover. After completing extensive training she was assigned to the shuttle Endeavor for a 190 hour mission. On September 20,1992 Mae became the first colored women in space. Which she commented that “Society should recognize how much both women and members of other minority groups can contribute if given the

Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African-American female astronaut to travel in space. Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African American female Ambassador of the United States. Miss Vanessa Williams was the first African American Miss America and the first African American White House Social Secretary was Desiree Rogers. There have been many nationally recognized accomplishments by African American women. Additionally, there have also been many unknown “paving the way” accomplishments by African American women such as Linda Adams Hoyle, the first African American woman to graduate from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) in 1968. Also, Jackie Blackwell, Linda Turner, and Marguerite Scott were three of the First

On the 28th of January 1986 Reagan planned to address the nation with a regular and expected state of the Union address instead he spoke on the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challengers destruction. Reagan then addresses how there had been other astronauts that had lost their lives nineteen years ago but never as many astronauts while in flight as with Challenger. He follows with a specific message to the families of the event where he spoke of the great character of the crew, of their hunger to explore, and their heart to serve their nation. He even acknowledges that we were still only pioneers who had much to learn about space. The next audience specifically addressed is that of the American schoolchildren were Reagan acknowledges that “it's

On January 28th 1986 the space shuttle Challenger was set to be sent into space with teacher Christa McAuliffe from New Hampshire as part of its crew. It was colder than normal on that day and engineers from NASA were concerned about possible failure of the O rings of the shuttle. However, their supervisors ignored them and let the shuttle embark on schedule. As a result the challenger exploded before it even exited the atmosphere

On an unusually cool Florida morning in January 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 50,000 feet above ground just moments after liftoff killing seven crew members onboard (Palmer, Dunford, and Akin, 2009). A presidential commission, dubbed “the Rogers Commission” (hereafter, the Commission) after former Secretary of State William Rogers, was appointed to investigate the cause of the disaster. Although mechanical failure of an O-ring seal in one of the rocket boosters was identified as the physical cause, the investigation revealed something much more disheartening; organizational deficiencies at NASA had allowed potential safety hazards to be disregarded. The disastrous consequences of NASA’s organizational failure prompted calls

Sally Ride was born May 26, 1951, in California. After high school, she went to Stanford University in California. She earned degrees in physics. Physics is a type of science. Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space. For fun, she liked to run. She also played tennis, volleyball and softball. Ride wrote science books for children. The books are about exploring space. NASA began looking for women astronauts in 1977. Sally Ride was a student at the time. She saw an ad in the school newspaper inviting women to apply to the astronaut program. Sally Ride decided to apply for the job. She was one of six women picked! On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. She was an astronaut on a space shuttle

In 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center people watched in awe for a little more than a minute before the shuttle exploded in flight. This was the first of only two major accidents that occurred during over two decades of NASA’s shuttle program and many would consider it to be a fluke that could not have been prevented or predicted. In truth the Challenger disaster was an accident waiting to happen and was a symptom of systemic problems that were occurring at NASA during that era. The 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster was cause by a number of factors including structural failure of the shuttle, a change in NASA’s work environment from the days of the

The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, also known as the Rogers Commission was formed to investigate the disaster. The Rogers Commission released a report several months later of its findings. Primarily, the commission found that the Challenger accident was caused by 'A failure in the O-rings sealing a joint on the right solid rocket booster, which allowed pressurized hot gases and eventually flame to blow by the O-ring and make contact with the adjacent external tank, causing structural failure. The failure of the O-rings was attributed to a faulty design, whose performance could be too easily compromised by facts including the low temperature on the day of the

All seven crew members died. The accident investigation board figured out that, during the launch of the shuttle, a piece of insulating foam had torn from the external tank and struck the orbiter’s left wing, weakening its thermal protection ability. When the orbiter later reentered the atmosphere, it was unable to withstand the superheated air, which penetrated the wing and destroyed it, leading to the vehicle’s breakup. These two horrible accidents were part of the reason that NASA canceled the Space Shuttle program.

(Garber) This caused a spark that would ignite the vehicle; but all materials in the cabin of the module were said to be fire retardant. The Velcro straps in the module continued to burn, thus badly burning the bodies of the astronauts; as well as the inward opening hatch that prevented a quick (Teitel)rescue of the men. (Dhar) Altogether there was no chance of survival for the men once the fire had ignited.

Boisjoly had done work on the van's promoter rockets at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Utah in February 1985, at which time he noticed that at low temperatures, an O-ring get together in the rockets dissolved and, thusly, neglected to seal legitimately. In the wake of making a decent attempt, administration of Morton Thiokol allocates an assignment group to investigate the O-ring issue after Roger Boisjoly focuses on enough about the O-ring. In any case, the errand group did nothing other than sign a paper expressing everything is extraordinary, Boisjoy's desires went on for one month however nothing happened. The temperature go for the supporters, as indicated in Thiokol's agreement with NASA, was between 40 degrees F and 90 degrees F. Low temperature and storm had effectively postponed the take off of Challenger two days. On the booked dispatch day, January 28, 1986, the climate was overcast and cool at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was noticed that the temperature upon the arrival of dispatch was 30 degrees F frosty then some other screen

“Rominger also spends some of his time educating today’s youth. He spent an afternoon at Club Heights Elementary talking to students about his career in space. The young students were very eager and anxious to learn more about his space career as they looked at his pictures from space. The students were very excited when they got to ask him questions about his career.” (http://www.standard.net/Education/2015/03/18/Astronaut-Wows-Students)

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed and the lives of all seven of its crew were lost. Within 2 hours of the loss of signal from the Columbia, a commission was formed to investigate, thanks to procedures that had been established following the Challenger disaster 17 years prior. That commission, known as the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB), conducted an extensive process of diagnosis of the causes of the Columbia disaster. The Commission's report concluded that the loss of Challenger was caused by a failure of the joint and seal between the two lower segments of the right