The development of the Space shuttle has allowed many opportunities to explore the universe. There is so much about the other planets and space that we do not know about. Space shuttles allow people to travel into space and allow things to be sent into space. There has been six space shuttles: Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor. Currently they are all on display at various museums and centers throughout the United States with the exception of the two, Challenger and
The Space Shuttle The shuttle, a manned, multipurpose, orbital-launch space plane, was designed to carry payloads of up to about 30,000 kg (65,000 lb) and up to seven crew members and passengers. The upper part of the spacecraft, the orbiter stage, had a theoretical lifetime of perhaps 100 missions, and the winged orbiter could make unpowered landings on returning to earth. Because of the shuttle's designed flexibility and its planned use for satellite deployment and the rescue and repair of previously
On January 28, 1986, the American shuttle Challenger was completely destroyed 73 seconds after liftoff, a catastrophic end to the shuttle's tenth mission. This disaster took the lives of all seven astronauts aboard. One of those astronauts was a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, who was selected to go on the mission and still teach but teach to students all over the United States from space. It was later determined that two rubber O-rings, which had been designed to separate the sections of the rocket
I my visit to endeavor space shuttle was technical and it has loaded my mind with tons of experience which I have never experienced it before. I have visited this space arena near the Pasadena along with friends and it has taught me a new phase of my life which I have never dealt with. It has memorized the new equations which I have never understood in physics. The main concept of this visit was to recall all the equations which I have read in the class and relate those equations with the practical
On 28th January 1986, the whole world focused on the Challenger shuttle project, which was an evolution of carrying the first person into space. However, after 73 seconds into the flight, the Challenger was ripped apart above Cape Canaveral in Florida. As a result, the launch of this shuttle exploded and killed seven crew members inside the shuttle. The President initiated a Commission to identify the causes of this shuttle disaster. One technical cause was the O-ring seals in the aft field of the
January 28, 1986, at 11:38am, one minute until the Challenger space shuttle lifted off, the weather was bad, but still have lot people drove to and watch the launch at that freezing day, people don’t know the bad weather are leading to a disaster, actually the engineer already warn that the launch are extremely dangerous at such a cold day, at 11:39am, the Challenger space shuttle took off, few second later abnormal black smoke comes out from the roll booster, around 45 second after took off observed
February 1st, 2003, disaster struck the space shuttle program: Columbia had disintegrated upon re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere just 16 minutes before it was supposed to land at Kennedy Space Center (National Geographic News par 2-3). The shuttle had been damaged by little more than foam from the external tank but it was enough to make it susceptible to the high temperatures it faced as it descended through the atmosphere. The idea that a space shuttle can endure damage that is unforeseen or unavoidable
expensive way of space travel was forever changed with the creation of the space shuttle. The Columbia space shuttle was important to space exploration because it used new technology that changed space travel, completed missions that other spacecraft could not, and brought new people into space. NASA received a contract to build the shuttle on July 26, 1972 as a prototype named the Enterprise (Dunbar “Space Shuttle” 1). Construction began on March 25, 1975, in Rockwell International’s assembly plant
When in orbit the shuttle is positioned so that it is moving nose-first and the top of the shuttle is pointing towards the earth. The shuttle is positioned "bottom up" so that the black bottom will radiate the heat from the sun more effeciently. Step one for the shuttle is to turn around so that it is moving stern-first and then it fires it's engines in order to slow the shuttle so that it will drop out of orbit. Next the shuttle flips over so that it is right-side-up when it enters the atmosphere
NASA has built its newest space shuttle which is made to set records and take humans further than they have ever gone before to explore unmapped territory, asteroids, and the Red Planet, Mars. There was a test flight scheduled for this amazing machine to fly on Thursday December 4, 2014 but the launch time continued being delayed for multiple reasons. The new apparent launch date is Friday December 5, 2014 at 7:05 AM ET. This amazing new space shuttle has been named Orion, like and after the constellation
My experience during the learning process of Ronald Reagan’s Speech about the Challenger space shuttle and the space program itself was interesting. I never knew the elements that went into the space shuttle or the time it took to prepare before launch. Such as, payloads and a variety of tests that check if it is safe for flight. Also, the various parts and attachments like the satellites that they were wanting to use for observation for Halley’s Comet. The original plan for the Challenger would
the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated in midair as the nation watched in disbelief and sadness. The cause of the Challenger accident was determined to be a system design failure on one of the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters. Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) are a pair of large solid strap-on rockets that were utilized by NASA during the first two minutes of the Challenger’s Space Shuttle launch. The pair of SRBs was applied to provide an extra liftoff boost for the Space Shuttle during takeoff
1.0 Introduction 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
The significant engineering failure that will be analyzed 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 due the weather front stalling. The second
On January 28, 1968 the space shuttle Challenger was deployed from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. One minute and thirteen seconds after liftoff the spaceship ignited in mid air and all seven crew members were killed. The cause of the destruction of the challenger was a certain part of rubber that relieves pressure on the side of the actual rocket booster called an O-ring. When a space shuttle as used as the Challenger is about to be used for another mission there should be an even more careful
Description The NASA Space Shuttle Program (Space Transportation System) was a US government manned launch vehicle program from 1983 to 2011, with the program officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle Orbiter is the only winged space shuttle to orbit and land, and the only reusable orbiter that has ever made multiple flights into orbit, in fact 130 times. The space Shuttle was designed to fulfil two basic roles in manned flight simulations: 1. The first goal of the Space Shuttle program was to provide
On Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the disaster. An investigation board determined that a large piece of foam fell from the shuttle's external tank and breached the spacecraft wing. This problem with foam had been known for years, and NASA came under intense scrutiny in Congress and in the media for allowing the situation to continue. The Columbia
On January 28, 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger destined for space came to a crashing halt after just 73 seconds into liftoff. What would the first thought of any normal person be? Why? What went wrong? All seven crew members aboard The Challenger perished. While the physical cause of the Challenger is now known as the failure of mechanics, the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident revealed that the primary cause of the disaster was “flaws in the decision
failure, without learning from it? There is very little to learn from success. The Space Shuttle Columbia was a tragedy that occurred February 1, 2003 and cost the lives of loved ones which makes it hard to bring positivity to the event. During the launch of the space shuttle Columbia, specifically about 82 seconds after taking off, a piece of insulating from the the propellant tank came off and hit the shuttles portside wing. Everything seemed fine, the crew member went about researching the effects
Why was the 1986 Challenger Shuttle launch such a “high profile” launch? The crew involved- This was the first time a civilian astronaut was going to space (the teacher). NASA had a lot to gain from this mission. Since the press was interested as well as government officials (president) NASA knew a mission like this could really boost their budget. Sear complexity- This was the most complicated launch in history, more so than the Apollo moon landing. This shuttle was reused 9 times prior to