Space Shuttle

stress were some of the things that I felt at the time. My friends were doing all they could do to fix the problem. One was listening to whatever the engineers said while the other was trying to build a oxygen tank from spare parts we had in the shuttle. It had been roughly fifty six hours, and we had travelled two hundred thousand miles away from Earth. There is nothing or no one around us; just a empty, cold, dark void that surrounded us.We were missing potable water, we had very limited power

January 28, 1986 when the space shuttle fell apart 73 seconds after being launched. Seven crew members onboard the Challenger died that day. The day before launching NASA engineers had a meeting with the Morton Thiokol their contracting firm to discuss the problems that would arise in launching the space shuttle in the low temperatures forecasted for the next day. The Morton Thiokol engineers said it was unsafe for the launch of the shuttle noting the 7 out of 24 shuttles launches in the past that

In the early years of space exploration, the concept of a reusable spacecraft existed only in science fiction. This, however, changed in 1972 when President Richard Nixon announced the launch of the Space Shuttle Program. The Space Shuttle would have a shape similar to a jet plane and would be able to reenter the atmosphere, safely land in an airstrip and be ready for use again after a thorough maintenance process. Designing this kind of craft would require never-before-seen engineering techniques

The significant engineering failure that will be analyze is the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1986, the Challenger faced many launch delays. The first delay of the Challenger was due to the expected weather front and presence of the Vice President (ENGINEERING.com). Since rain and cold temperatures were expected to move into the area, they didn’t want the Vice President to make unnecessary trips. However, the launch window became perfect weather conditions since the weather front stalled. The second

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

The accident involving the Space Shuttle Columbia was a tragedy that could have been prevented if the proper actions had been taken. America had seemed to not learn its lesson when the Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded 17 years before. One of the main concepts of the Space Shuttle is cost effectiveness and that does not promote safety which is the reason that the Space Shuttle Columbia burned up on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. The reason that the Space Shuttle Columbia was because of a certain

2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew member. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke apart and killed the seven- member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986. During the launch of STS-107, Columba’s 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing of the orbiter. A few previous shuttle launches

Introduction Brief description of the two space shuttle tragedies In the early morning hours of February 1, 2003, some 38 miles above the Earth in the skies above Texas, the space shuttle Columbia exploded upon reentry. All seven astronauts were lost. For many, who witnessed the white trail of smoke and debris shower falling to the plains below, it was a reminder of the space shuttle Challenger’s destruction a minute after leaving the launch pad at Cape Canaveral seventeen years earlier in 1986.

Space Shuttle Challenger 1. Why did NASA decide to launch Challenger? The shuttle program was under political attack. Congress was dissatisfied with the program, and the president poorly defended it, this led to sever budget cuts. In order to keep the program alive NASA had to prove that it could pay for itself. To attract customers and retain Congressional support, NASA had to prove that it could launch a large number of flights on time. This stressed the already threatened Launch schedule. No

I looked first to find relevant information to the concept and origin of the space shuttle program. That yielded few results yet gave me the background information that I was looking for. After that had been accomplished, I was able to find information straight from NASA to identify each shuttle used and significant points during the flights of each one. Lastly, I had to hone in on the transition from the space shuttle program to the commercial spacecraft that are being put together to launch the