high pressured spaces to test it. The vehicle had passed the test. Now it was time to make the final copy of the Challenger. The o rings were being made on a different Station other than the Kennedy Space Station. All the rocket pieces were spread out all over the country. Now all final pieces of the rocket are ready. They were to be sent to the Kennedy space station by train. All pieces took a year to put together and test. The astronauts were getting picked to go up into space. These astronauts
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female astronaut to go in space. B. Sally proved to everyone that if you put your mind to it‚ anything is possible. Encouraged girls to pursue their careers in science. C. On June 18‚ 1983‚ Sally Ride blasted off into space on the Challenger. D. Thesis statement II. Things leading up to event A. Russia beat the US by 20 years In 1963‚ the Soviet Union set parachutist Valentina Tereshkova in orbit. B. The U.S. passed on sending 13 women into space after they had successfully
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The loss of the space shuttle Columbia prompted an investigation to determine the factors that contributed to the accident. Essential to the investigation was collecting and analyzing data associated not only with the Columbia accident‚ but that of the 1987 loss of the space shuttle Challenger. Evidence from the investigation indicated that lessons learned from the Challenger were not necessarily applied to the shuttle program and may have been instrumental in the loss of the Columbia. It was determined
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destroyers. My dad worked a lathe‚ he built torpedoes. One time I even got one. I did know people in WWII. I remember relatives talking about the big loss that our country had experienced.” Question: Do you remember anything about the assassination of Kennedy? Answer: “I was at a high school pep-rally. I went to a Catholic all-boy high school. When we found out about Kennedy’s death‚ we began to pray. Then‚ I had too take the bus home. We went through
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expectation of a mission that would take a civilian for the first time into the space by launched the Challenger‚ in 1986‚ but something unexpected happened when the shuttle explored shortly after liftoff and claiming the lives of all crew members onboard. That was not the only exploration of the American history‚ another similar disaster was the exploration of a 16 -day mission of the Columbia in 2003‚ when the space shuttle broke apart while re-entering the atmosphere over Texas and killing all
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The Challenger Disaster Space shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral‚ Florida on January 28‚ 1986. The initial shuttle launch was delayed for six days due to poor weather and technical problems. After launch‚ the space shuttle Challenger exploded a minute and thirteen seconds after liftoff. The last words heard by the crew was from the captain‚ Mike Smith stating‚ “Uh- oh‚” (Ranker) proving that he was aware of a problem in the launch. The several astronauts were
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Analysis In the early spring of 1986‚ The Challenger was scheduled to launch in the morning from the Kennedy Space Center. The Challenger had seven passengers. One of these passengers was a Christa McAuliffe‚ a social studies teacher from New Hampshire. She was the first ordinary citizen to be going to space. The social studies teacher had won the opportunity through NASA’s Teachers in space program. The spacecraft was in the air only seventy-three seconds before it exploded and broke apart into
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in the eastern part of the United States. Titusville is located about 45 miles south of Daytona Beach and about 123 miles away from Jacksonville. The Indian River separates the city of Titusville from the city of Merritt Island‚ and also the Kennedy Space Center. There isn’t a big population in Titusville because of the entire job cuts‚ but the people that are here in Titusville are hard working‚ determined‚ and straight to the point kinds of people. In Nashville‚ Tennessee there are so many things
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Qatar Airways plane and took off. We first passed the Middle East‚ they journey was or 12 hours. Then went through African and Europe next we crossed the Atlantic Ocean and finally we had reached at New York. We had landed at JFK Airport (John of Kennedy). After a hour of transit at JFK‚ we took a Jet Blue domestic flight to Orlando. After like about 3 hours‚ we finally reached at Orlando Airport. There we met two more of our escorts. We went to hotel by bus. Our hotel was very good. Its name was
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The Answer by Karl Nemsow Voyager1 sails through deep space all alone. It has been on its journey since 1977 sending back glimpses of the solar system to help humankind find some answers. One of the greatest questions asked by humankind is what‚ or who‚ else might exist out in our grandiose cosmos. A cosmos 13.7 billion years old‚ which is so massive that it is incomprehensible to the human mind. Dr Vince Hawking tried to comprehend such concepts every single day. It made him wonder if
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