Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

Author : Michael D. Leinbach,Jonathan H. Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781628728521

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Bringing Columbia Home by Michael D. Leinbach,Jonathan H. Ward Pdf

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts: Parallel Confusion Courage, Compassion, and Commitment Picking Up the Pieces A Bittersweet Victory For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.

Author : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617861147

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The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack Pdf

Discusses the people and events surrounding the space shuttle Columbia disaster.

Author : United States. Columbia Accident Investigation Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Space shuttles
ISBN : MINN:31951D02468751Y

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Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report by United States. Columbia Accident Investigation Board Pdf

Author : Michael Cabbage,William Harwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780743266987

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Comm Check... by Michael Cabbage,William Harwood Pdf

On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and America's space program, always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia's destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of human space exploration. Media coverage in the immediate aftermath focused on the possible cause of the disaster, and on the nation's grief. But the full human story, and the shocking details of NASA's crucial mistakes, have never been told -- until now. Based on dozens of exclusive interviews, never-before-published documents and recordings of key meetings obtained by the authors, Comm Check takes the reader inside the conference rooms and offices where NASA's best and brightest managed the nation's multi-billion-dollar shuttle program -- and where they failed to recognize the signs of an impending disaster. It is the story of a space program pushed to the brink of failure by relentless political pressure, shrinking budgets and flawed decision making. The independent investigation into the disaster uncovered why Columbia broke apart in the sky above Texas. Comm Check brings that story to life with the human drama behind the tragedy. Michael Cabbage and William Harwood, two of America's most respected space journalists, are veterans of all but a handful of NASA's 113 shuttle missions. Tapping a network of sources and bringing a combined three decades of experience to bear, the authors provide a rare glimpse into NASA's inner circles, chronicling the agency's most devastating failure and the challenges that face NASA as it struggles to return America to space.

Author : Nasa
Publisher : PDQ Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0979828899

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Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report by Nasa Pdf

NASA commissioned the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) to conduct a thorough review of both the technical and the organizational causes of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew on February 1, 2003. The accident investigation that followed determined that a large piece of insulating foam from Columbia's external tank (ET) had come off during ascent and struck the leading edge of the left wing, causing critical damage. The damage was undetected during the mission. The Columbia accident was not survivable. After the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) investigation regarding the cause of the accident was completed, further consideration produced the question of whether there were lessons to be learned about how to improve crew survival in the future. This investigation was performed with the belief that a comprehensive, respectful investigation could provide knowledge that can protect future crews in the worldwide community of human space flight. Additionally, in the course of the investigation, several areas of research were identified that could improve our understanding of both nominal space flight and future spacecraft accidents. This report is the first comprehensive, publicly available accident investigation report addressing crew survival for a human spacecraft mishap, and it provides key information for future crew survival investigations. The results of this investigation are intended to add meaning to the sacrifice of the crew's lives by making space flight safer for all future generations.

Author : Michael D. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0894905430

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Columbia by Michael D. Cole Pdf

The first U.S. space shuttle to fly was Columbia. Piloted by only two astronauts, John Young and Robert Crippen, this mission revolutionized space flight. For the first time, a spacecraft was re-usable. This book discusses the liftoff, flight, and landing of this first space shuttle.

Author : Tamra B. Orr
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634729505

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Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion and Space Exploration by Tamra B. Orr Pdf

This book relays the factual details of the Columbia space shuttle explosion through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a WRDY news reporter, potential future astronaut, and a family. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Content focuses on point-of-view and encourages readers to understand how background and experience can lead to differing views.

Author : William Starbuck,Moshe Farjoun
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405142601

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Organization at the Limit by William Starbuck,Moshe Farjoun Pdf

The book offers important insight relevant to Corporate, Governmentand Global organizations management in general. The internationallyrecognised authors tackle vital issues in decision making, howorganizational risk is managed, how can technological andorganizational complexities interact, what are the impediments foreffective learning and how large, medium, and small organizationscan, and in fact must, increase their resilience. Managers,organizational consultants, expert professionals, and trainingspecialists; particularly those in high risk organizations, mayfind the issues covered in the book relevant to their daily workand a potential catalyst for thought and action. A timely analysis of the Columbia disaster and theorganizational lessons that can be learned from it. Includes contributions from those involved in the InvestigationBoard report into the incident. Tackles vital issues such as the role of time pressures andgoal conflict in decision making, and the impediments for effectivelearning. Examines how organizational risk is managed and howtechnological and organizational complexities interact. Assesses how large, medium, and small organizations can, and infact must, increase their resilience. Questions our eagerness to embrace new technologies, yetreluctance to accept the risks of innovation. Offers a step by step understanding of the complex factors thatled to disaster.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company,Southgate Publishers
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788119125

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Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident by DIANE Publishing Company,Southgate Publishers Pdf

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : IND:30000126660715

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Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf

"NASA commissioned the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) to conduct a thorough review of both the technical and the organizational causes of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew on February 1, 2003. The accident investigation that followed determined that a large piece of insulating foam from Columbia's external tank (ET) had come off during ascent and struck the leading edge of the left wing, causing critical damage. The damage was undetected during the mission. The CAIB’s findings and recommendations were published in 2003 and are available on the web at http://caib.nasa.gov/. NASA responded to the CAIB findings and recommendations with the Space Shuttle Return to Flight Implementation Plan.1 Significant enhancements were made to NASA's organizational structure, technical rigor, and understanding of the flight environment. The ET was redesigned to reduce foam shedding and eliminate critical debris. In 2005, NASA succeeded in returning the space shuttle to flight. In 2010, the space shuttle will complete its mission of assembling the International Space Station and will be retired to make way for the next generation of human space flight vehicles: the Constellation Program. The Space Shuttle Program recognized the importance of capturing the lessons learned from the loss of Columbia and her crew to benefit future human exploration, particularly future vehicle design. The program commissioned the Spacecraft Crew Survival Integrated Investigation Team (SCSIIT). The SCSIIT was asked to perform a comprehensive analysis of the accident, focusing on factors and events affecting crew survival, and to develop recommendations for improving crew survival for all future human space flight vehicles. To do this, the SCSIIT investigated all elements of crew survival, including the design features, equipment, training, and procedures intended to protect the crew. This report documents the SCSIIT findings, conclusions, and recommendations."--PDF Executive summary.

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542768675

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The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster by Charles River Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Profiles the origins of the mission and what went wrong *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents In the decades after the Apollo program, American space shuttles flew over 130 missions and successfully completed over 98% of them, but unfortunately, the two most famous missions were the ones that ended tragically aboard the Challenger and Columbia. The Space Shuttle Challenger was the most heavily used space shuttle in the three years it was operational, carrying the first minority astronaut and woman astronaut into space. Challenger was also the first space shuttle to complete a landing at night. On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched for the 10th time, beginning mission STS-51-L. Space shuttles had already successfully completed 24 missions, and no American spacecraft had ever failed to reach orbit during an official mission. On this mission, the Challenger was carrying a satellite for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites system, which was to be deployed in orbit. The crew included Ronald McNair, who had already been the second African-American in space, and Ellison Onizuka, who had already been the first Asian-American astronaut in space. But the highlight of the mission was to be the "NASA Teacher in Space Project," in which a civilian teacher would give teaching lessons to his or her class while onboard the space shuttle. The winner of the competition was Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher in Concord, New Hampshire, who wrote a winning essay and had to undergo a year of astronaut training before that fateful day. It was a beautiful morning, and many spectators came to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch, including McAuliffe's parents and her students. Several news networks were carrying live broadcasts of the launch, including live shots of McAuliffe's parents as they watched the Challenger liftoff. Mission Control's transmissions to the Challenger were being blared over loudspeakers to give spectators a play-by-play of the shuttle's ascent. Ascent seemed to be going normally during the first minute, but about 75 seconds into the ascent, a plastic O-ring used to seal a joint in one of the solid rocket boosters failed, causing a breach of hot gas. That gas spread to the other rocket booster and the external fuel tank, causing an explosion. When the spectators saw the explosion, many of them started cheering, unaware of what was really happening. But Mission Control quickly announced that there had been some sort of problem, and the crowd became confused and then panicky as the space shuttle, fuel tank and rocket boosters all broke apart and flew in opposite directions. Some cameras fixed on the falling debris as it fell to the ocean, while others stayed focused on McAuliffe's parents. The entire crew was killed in the explosion, and investigations concluded that they may have survived until crashing into the ocean. After the Challenger disaster, the space shuttles were grounded for about two years, and a commission issued findings that would be used in an effort to prevent similar tragedies. The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: The History and Legacy of NASA's Most Notorious Tragedy chronicles the disaster from the origins of its mission to what went so terribly wrong. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Challenger like never before.

Author : Pat Duggins
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813040783

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Final Countdown by Pat Duggins Pdf

The Space Shuttle was once the cornerstone of the U.S. space program. However, each new flight brings us one step closer to the retirement of the shuttle in 2010. Final Countdown is the riveting history of NASA's Space Shuttle program, its missions, and its impending demise. It also examines the plans and early development of the space agency’s next major effort: the Orion Crew Exploration Capsule. Journalist Pat Duggins, National Public Radio's resident "space expert," chronicles the planning stages of the shuttle program in the early 1970s, the thrills of the first flight in 1981, construction of the International Space Station in the 1990s, and the decision in the early 2000s to shut it down. As a rookie reporter visiting the Kennedy Space Center hangar to view the Challenger wreckage, Duggins was in a unique position to offer a poignant eyewitness account of NASA's first shuttle disaster. In Final Countdown, he recounts the agency's struggle to rebound after the Challenger and Columbia tragedies, and explores how politics, scientific entrepreneurship, and the human drive for exploration have impacted the program in sometimes unexpected ways. Duggins has covered eighty-six shuttle missions, and his twenty-year working relationship with NASA has given him unprecedented access to personnel. Many spoke openly and frankly with him, including veteran astronaut John Young, who discusses the travails to get the shuttle program off the ground. Young's crewmate, astronaut Bob Crippen, reveals the frustration and loss he felt when his first opportunity to go into space on the first planned space station was taken away. As the shuttle program winds down, more astronauts may face similar disappointments. Final Countdown is a story of lost dreams, new hopes, and the ongoing conquest of space.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050329239

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Columbia Accident Investigation Board, Report Vol. 1, August 2003, * by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sean Casteel
Publisher : Inner Light - Global communications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Space vehicle accidents
ISBN : 1892062569

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Nikola Tesla's Death Ray and the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster by Sean Casteel Pdf

READ THE FACTS NASA AND THE GOVERNMENT DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW. . . This large size - 8x11 -- deluxe edition provides evidence that the space agency issued warnings to the public about the danger of coming in contact with space shuttle debris in order to cover up the true cause of the Columbia disaster. WERE THEY ATTEMPTING TO CONCEAL THE FACT THAT A WEAPON FIRST ENVISIONED BY LEGENDARY INVENTOR NIKOLA TESLA OVER 80 YEARS AGO WAS THE REAL CULPRIT THAT BROUGH DOWN THE SHIP AND KILLED THE SEVEN ASTRONAUTS? Learn about the San Francisco photographer who took photos of the Columbia as it passed over the Bay Area. The photos, when developed, revealed anomalous flashes of purple light around the shuttle minutes before it was destroyed. NASAS later confiscated the photographer's camera and flew it to Mission Control by a special jet. What did the camera contain that made it so crucial for NASA to take possession of it? The book also includes the full text of a l940 newspaper article in which Tesla first unveils the invention of his "Death Ray to a sympathetic reporter. Did other scientists pick up where Tesla left off and create a super weapon the likes of which the world has never seen before? Was a device Tesla intended to be used defensively developed into a horrifying offensive weapon instead? Another chapter deals with the rumored Soviet conspiracy to sabotage the U.S. space program, leaving a path of destruction in their wake that includes eight U.S. rockets destroyed over a 19 month period. Was the U.S.S.R. also responsible for the Challenger disaster in 1986? This book will be of special interest to those who have long thought that much of Tesla's work continues behind our backs andunderground by a Secret Government that has a global agenda of world domination.

Author : Sean Casteel,Commader X
Publisher : Inner Light Global Communications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1606111663

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Nikola Tesla's Death Ray and the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster by Sean Casteel,Commader X Pdf

THE TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL! READ THE FACTS NASA AND THE GOVERNMENT DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW. . . This updated edition provides evidence that the space agency issued warnings to the public about the danger of coming in contact with space shuttle debris in order to cover up the true cause of the Columbia disaster. WERE THEY ATTEMPTING TO CONCEAL THE FACT THAT A WEAPON FIRST ENVISIONED BY LEGENDARY INVENTOR NIKOLA TESLA OVER 80 YEARS AGO WAS THE REAL CULPRIT THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE SHIP AND KILLED THE SEVEN ASTRONAUTS? Learn about the San Francisco photographer who took photos of the Columbia as it passed over the Bay Area. The photos, when developed, revealed anomalous flashes of purple light around the shuttle minutes before it was destroyed. NASA later confiscated the photographer's camera and flew it to Mission Control by a special jet. What did the camera contain that made it so crucial for NASA to take possession of it? The book also includes the full text of a l940 newspaper article in which Tesla first unveils the invention of his "Death Ray to a sympathetic reporter. Did other scientists pick up where Tesla left off and create a super weapon the likes of which the world has never seen before? Was a device Tesla intended to be used defensively developed into a horrifying offensive weapon instead? Another chapter deals with the rumored Soviet conspiracy to sabotage the U.S. space program, leaving a path of destruction in their wake that includes eight U.S. rockets destroyed over a 19 month period. This book will be of special interest to those who have long thought that much of Tesla's work continues behind our backs and underground by a Secret Government that has a global agenda of world domination.