Challenger Disaster Research Paper

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Sultan Albusaidi
MEEN 1000
9/21/15
Dr. Nandika Anne D’Souza

The Challenger Disaster occurred in 1968 in Florida, USA. It was a tragic incident that resulted in the death of everyone who was in the space shuttle. The accident happened due to a mechanical failure. It all began when the O-ring failed at liftoff, which then caused a breach allowing burning gas to reach the outside and thus cause it to blow up.
There is an engineering ethics that every engineer should follow; however the engineers that were working on the space shuttle didn’t follow some of those ethics. The first thing that was mentioned in the fundamental cannons was that “Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public in the performance of their professional duties”. However, this was the opposite of what …show more content…

Safely always comes first no matter how important the project is. The conflict of interest happened when the congress expected that the challenger would be financially supportive by NASA because of the over spending which then forced NASA to operate as pseudo commercial and cause problems. After the disaster happened it caught the attention of the public and media, which then resulted in more tension on the case, because everyone wanted to know what happened and how it happened. The information they gave at first was not very clear and a lot of things were kept a secret, but after a while because of all the pressure more information was given about the incident. There were also some communication flaws, which resulted in the accident; failure in communication has resulted in the launch of the challenger over misleading information. There was a conflict between some of the engineers and NASA management about the safety of the space shuttle. All of this could have been averted if everyone communicated clearly and trusted each

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