Professional Ethics

Challenger Tragedy

For the Challenger Tragedy, we all were required to collect/search information about the chronology and the cause of the tragedy. As my part of research of information, I am supposed to search about the cause of the tragedy.

The Challenger ‘Space Shuttle’ disaster is still the most significant event in the history. Total crews of 7 are dead in explosion which is 73 seconds after the launch and it was broadcasted on television and badly affected the NASA and the publics of America.

Cause of tragedy:

On a cold morning of January 28th 1986, was usually cold and the engineer recorded and warned about the climate and some of the rubber o-ring’s failure. O-rings of the shuttle's solid rockets boosters were vulnerable to failure of low temperature but was ignore and at 11:39 a.m., the rocket was launched. Morton Thiokol, the company of the o-rings designed for the solid rocket booster had ignored about the issues. The manager were aware about these design problem but failed to take action on it.