ESSAY
"Ron McNair and the Space Shuttle Columbia"
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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....
...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."