World History: The Challenger Disaster

The office of President of the United States has become one of the most powerful and influential positions in the world.  A president has the power to set a legislative agenda, to veto a law, and to make crucial foreign policy decisions.  While all these capabilities are important, the most significant power of the presidency resides in his or her ability to respond to a national tragedy. Specifically, the president must provide comfort to a demoralized nation, commemorate the fallen Americans, and inspire hope.  No president fulfilled these tasks better than President Ronald Reagan during his “Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address” to the nation.  President Reagan comforted the nation, memorialized the seven casualties, and culminated hope for the future of space exploration all in a four-and-a-half-minute national address.  President Reagan’s address not only demonstrated the most important task of the President of the United States, but it also became a template from which future tragedy addresses would be given.

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Memos within a company serve several purposes. They may be used to report meeting agendas, policies, internal reports, or short proposals. Memos may also be used as a tool to inform staff, management, or executives of important information. Two very good examples of this are the memos written regarding the 1978 Three Mile Island Disaster, and the 1985 Challenger Explosion. Both of these disasters were forewarned by employees and addressed by memos to superiors. Bert M. Dunn of Babcock and Wilcox Company wrote a memo to his management to inform them of a potential operator error occurring at the nuclear power plants that needed to be addressed. R. M. Boisjoly of Morton

Communication and interaction between military forecasters is a vital role in battle, but sometimes cannot be achieved. A local man by the name of Rev. Dr. Michael Jacobs had a strong passion for meteorology away from lecturing Mathematics. He kept detailed reports and took weather observations three times a day. As a result, Rev. Dr. Jacobs published a paper in 1885 titled ‘Meteorology of the Battle’3 which detailed the specific aspects of the weather. This outlined very basic data such as temperature and cloud type during each day of the battle, providing important metrological information which has been utilized in hindsight as this real time information was never available to the commanders at Gettysburg. Of course, one of the greatest

While seated in the Oval Office of the White house, January 28, 1986 President Ronald Reagan delivers his speech The Challenger Disaster; hours after the space shuttle The Challenger explodes while in take off. Thousands witnessed this horrifying event live in person and on television. This mission was very unique allowing the first civilian to ever be allowed in space during a mission. She was aboard The Challenger as an observer in the NASA Teacher in Space Program. Ironically, nineteen years before this disaster, three astronauts were tragically lost in an accident on the ground. President Reagan remembers those astronauts that were lost not only the day of the disaster, but also those who were lost nineteen years before. He conducts

On January 12, 1888, the weather in the west was mild, compared to previous weeks. Little did the people know that a massive cold front was in route and would be catastrophic to the people, their livestock, and the economy in the dekota and nebraska praries. The cold front would cause one of the worst blizzards for the region, killing close to 500 people. The factors that made the death toll so high involve the mild weather before the storm, the lack of technology for warning systems, and bad timing.

The post-bureaucratic era has seen the augmentation of leadership practices cultivating business sustainability from a pecuniary model to an ecological modernised ideology. Although, such dynamic contribution to business dogma has transformed neo-classical principles. Thus, exemplifying it as a “hybrid” form of economic “bureaucratic” growth and “Weberian” social and environmental rational (Clegg and Courpasson 2004: pg; 527). In this essay, I argue that post-bureaucratic leadership practices contribute to managing sustainability to an extent, as prior bureaucratic methods remain interpolated. Firstly, in section one I evaluate the limitations of groupthink cultivating a “fear of separation” within in post-bureaucratic era by calling on the views of Dimtroff, Schmidt and Bond (2005) however, I compare its effectiveness through the Columbian and the Challenger accident incurred by NASA, suggesting “post-heroic” forms of “group think” encumber judgement of management limiting ethicality. Following this, I will contrast the argument by drawing upon Clegg, Teo and Josserand (2006), implying that changes in practices within the post-bureaucratic era have “branched” and remain interpolated with bureaucratic leadership styles. In doing so, I will examine the writings of Stubbs and Coklin (2008), exploring the effects of the sustainable business model through Bendigo Bank and Interface, advocating that leadership practice contributes to the purpose of an organisation, through an

The predictions of forecast back around in that time, at times, could have been helpful, other times would not. Though the people had forecast predictions, they were often inaccurate. The forecasters, or indication officers, claimed that their predictions were accurate 83.7 percent of the time for the following day. The indication officers were not allowed to say certain things about the predicted forecast, which often affected the communities negatively not only for this certain occasion but for others, as well. For example, an officer could not even say the word tornado in any of their forecast predictions. The coastal cities of the nation thought that they were immune to the disaster of a hurricane, so forecasters would never mention a such a tragic storm in the predictions of the forecast. On top of the believed immunity and forbidden words to be mentioned in forecasts, the method of predictions was not at the best, either. Instead of relying on the physics of a storm and deeply studying it, indication officers turned more to geometry and cartography, the science of drawing maps, to predict where the storm will go. This did not leave the communities vulnerable for just this blizzard, but for pretty much every storm that swept across the nation, as

The case study I chose to analyze was the Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion by Ronald C. Kramer. Kramer discussed four main components that led to the catastrophic explosion. These components include the societal context, the final flaw, the persons behind the final decision to launch, and lastly the failure of social control mechanisms. There was not just one factor that led to the failure of the launch. As Kramer discusses the different concepts that led to the failure point to state-corporate crime as a private business and government agency interacted.

“It was, in the words of the Illustrated London News, 'the greatest disaster in the history of aviation'” (1930: Tonbridge Mourns Its R101 Victim). The R101 Airship was the largest airship to ever fly. The construction of the R101 Airship took a year to complete because of the many innovative plans that were intended to be used on the ship. On October 4, 1930, the R101 Airship departed on a journey to India. After being damaged by storms, the airship fell to the ground and crashed, resulting in the death of forty eight people. The R101 airship disaster was caused by three main things: it was not built thoroughly, it had problems that were not fixed, and was not ready for a difficult trip.

On 1st of February, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia exploded when it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere after finished a 16 days mission in space. All seven astronauts were dead because of this incident. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had stopped the space shuttle program for more than two years to investigate this tragedy. In the 16 days period, the astronauts did approximately 80 experiments on different categories, for example, life science and material science [1]. An investigation later has found out that the disaster was caused by a problem on the day that took off on 16th of January.

The Great Hurricane of 1938, or known to many as the Long Island Express, was known as one of the most disastrous hurricanes to hit New England. It wasn’t the high winds, heavy rain, and high waves/storm surge that gave this hurricane its title in history. The Great Hurricane had a fourth deadly weapon; the element of surprise. It was the beginning of September, a time where many packed up their summer clothes, boarded up their houses, and left to return back to the real world leaving their summer homes behind. When symptoms of a storm approached New England, many locals convinced themselves and others that it was just the normal “line storm” which occasionally comes in September. It wasn’t until Sept 21 that people realized the so-called

In meteorology, weather forecasters predict what the atmosphere is going to give rise to, given a specific time, which can range from hourly to weekly predictions. They make these precise predictions using previously accepted scientific theory, dealing with factors such as: pressure systems, the Earth’s rotation, the landscape, and other known weather phenomena constantly developing. Despite the vast amount of information, science, and history backing these forecasts, they oftentimes don’t play out precisely how we think they will, and the forecasters must amend their predictions as needed. This is because there is so many undetermined variables that can confuse our current understandings. Despite this, much weight is placed upon the shoulders of these meteorologists because of the impact that weather has on individuals and a society as a whole.

Seventy three seconds into its 10th flight, on January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing the seven crew members on board [1]. The Challenger was the second space shuttle constructed by NASA and had completed nine successful missions prior to the disaster. Following the accident, the shuttle program was suspended for 32 months as President Ronald Regan appointed a Commission, chaired by William P. Rogers and known as the Rogers Commission, to investigate the cause of the accident [1].

“Natural disasters have killed more than 600,000 people and left behind trillions of dollars in damages in the last two decades, the United Nations said Monday.” (Chan) Extreme weather has caused millions of casualties and extreme damages over the years, but lately there has been an increase in severe weather events. This is causing problems in the US, with the amount of tornadoes rising in tornado alley “Tennessee experienced a 67 percent increase in tornado activity in 1983-2013 compared to the 1954-1983 time period. Oklahoma experienced a nearly 35 percent decrease in tornadoes in 1983-2013 compared to 1954-1983.”