Columbia Space Shuttle- Final Mission :: American History, NASA

Columbia Final MissionWayne Hale, De tack togethery fowl ManagerWroteLast year we dropped the torch through our complacency, our arrogance, self assurance, vaporific stupidity and through our continuing attempt to please everyone. Seven of our friends and colleagues remunerative the ultimate price for our failure. Yet the nation is giving us other chance..We must not FailMore then tierce years ago the Space Shuttle Columbia went down in flames, due to the vituperate caused but not limited to, a mo of insulating bubble that broke off the external tank and struck the wings conduct edge. The foam struck with sufficient force to create an opening in the wing which allowed hot plasma to enter during reentry. No one legal opinion that foam could cause this much damage since nothing like this had resulted from previous instances where the foam had come off. In the beginning NASA was faced with a steadfast budget given to them by the government. This budget was large enough to course a state of the art air craft but wasnt enough to develop an escape system that might of proving to be useful in this case. The culture of NASA was a factor that created this mistake, The mantra Prove to me that theres close tothing wrong. The chain of hold was not equal the small guys couldnt voice their opinions and concerns because of the position they held in the organization. some other concern was that they miscalculated the risk of the foam creating any damage just because it neer destroyed another shuttle. The facts were clear that the foam had the ability to create some damage, and this was apparent in many other space shuttle launches. spark rubble was classified as an in-family event- a problem within NASA fuck base that was not considered a safety of flight issue. NASA even knew that foam debris tended to fall off the left bipod ramp and that ten part of the fights recorded loss foam from this area. Over the years NASA decided to put their concerns of foa m damage to the side and called it an acceptable thing to happen during roughhewn flight procedures instead of finding a way to prevent it. On its first day in orbit NASA engineers came to the conclusion that the foam debris that hit the left wing might have caused severe damage to the shuttle and could prevent it from a safe reentry.