Christa McAuliffe

If one is driving one 's vehicle and recognizes a person on foot venturing off a walkway, so what is one goes after the accelerator rather than breaks and runs the passerby over – is that viewed as an accident? On the off chance that you point a firearm at somebody and pull the trigger, is that and misfortune? If you dispatch a rocket at the temperature you know will bring about a demise or a catastrophe, is that comprehended as a bad luck? The accident is considered as “an unfortunate incident…

In 1957, the space race rushed the United States to find a way to send man to the moon. NASA had to determine who was eligible and qualified to be an astronaut. They didn’t know what space would be like and no one knew what would happen to the “human body in a microgravity environment” so multiple tests had to be run. Lovelace came up with the mercury test that would be the most accurate and closest thing to testing out the human body under all conditions. NASA picked potential astronauts from…

explosion. The President sent Vice President, George Bush to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to express his sympathies to the families of the astronauts who were aboard the space shuttle. When asked about the teacher astronaut, Christa McAuliffe, Reagan had this to say. “It’s a terrible thing. I just can’t get out of my mind her husband, her children, as well as the families of the others on board.” However, Reagan went on to “express confidence” in those bright minds behind…

The STS-51-L was a shuttle by NASA that exploded 73 seconds after lift off and killed 7 American astronauts. It takes NASA 1.5 billion dollars to launch a rocket. Therefore, in 73 seconds NASA wasted 1.5 billion dollars and cost us 7 precious lives. Between the years of 1964 and 1999 there have been twenty launches. Within those twenty launches six were failed missions, which in turn lost the U.S $9 Billion. NASA in the future would like to spend about 500 million dollars on each shuttle they…

On January 28, 1986 seven crew members were killed when their shuttle exploded mid-flight. 74 year old Ronald Reagan was the president at the time of the incident. Reagan was only one year into his second term as president. He was fascinated with the space program so he played a big part in the rebuilding years after the tragedy. Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States in 1981, although he did not originally start out as a politician. He was born in Tampico, Illinois on…

1986, Challenger, an American space shuttle exploded momentarily after lift off shocking the nation; including the children viewing from their classrooms. The crew of Challenger included seven members, but most notably was a school teacher Christa McAuliffe who was invited with the intent to teach school children from the shuttle. This incident received massive amounts of media coverage, and on the same day as the incident, President Ronald Reagan conducted his speech. Ronald Reagan used his…

impending launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. I do not remember if I had knowledge of the space program before that day, but something that day piqued my interest. As I sat watching the television, hearing the stories, mainly revolving around Christa McAuliffe, I could feel the tensions rise within myself as the clock moved closer to launch. As T-0 approached, my excitement built by the second, and then it happened. The rockets and engines ignited, and the massive machine slowly began to…

those missions had launched and landed properly without any trouble, so they were not expecting this shock. The Challenger shuttle played a big role in President Reagan's Teacher in Space program. The shuttle was going to take a teacher named Christa McAuliffe into space. This was planned because Reagan wanted more kids interested in space and to show them that they can be a part of history too. After they passed…

difficulties and extreme weather conditions. On January 28, 1985 the Space Shuttle Challenger was scheduled for launch again with the seven astronauts strapped in ready to go. One of the astronauts being the first teacher to go into space, Christa McAuliffe, who planned to give lessons while in orbit. NASA ran its checklist, but unfortunately Roger Boisjoly, a junior engineer working for the solid booster manufacturer, did not give the go. Cold temperatures and high winds create severe…

tragic event of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger took the lives of beloved people; Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and school teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe. This event of the take-off was viewed by many Americans, including school children. President Ronald Reagan delivered a comforting and honoring speech, the “Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address.” In this speech, Reagan not only address…