ESSAY
"Ron McNair and the Space Shuttle Columbia"

Categories

Peter VanBuskirk

February 11, 2003

World

National

Science

Technology

Columbia

NASA

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"The space shuttle Columbia disaster has many connections with other events involving similar sociotechnological events.  One obvious connection it has is with the Challenger disaster of 1986 in that there are numerous similarities and differences between the two events....
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In this sense, the tragedies of Dr. Ronald E. McNair and Ilan Ramon are bonded together by the common feelings of loss among the American and Israeli nations.  Thus America is sympathetic to the feelings of the Israeli people from the loss of Dr. McNair and will be able to guide them through both the period of mourning and of recovery when they will regroup and select Israel’s second astronaut."

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