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Engineering design:

The design and construction of Booster of challenger space shuttle was done by Morton Thiokol
in 1974.
The design was similar to the titian missile, but in this case there were solid booster that need a
field joints. Engineering design should base on safety, and zero percent ignorance of any issue
either it is in small or in large segment. So there are some issues are neglected in challenger,
these issues are given below.
Erosion of O-ring is neglected because they think solid booster is used only for few minutes and
in this time erosion is not a bed thing. The Thiokol engineers redesign the field joints without O-
rings.
Design failure impacts on the on future mission that are linked with the previous mission, so in
future mission more concentration and redesigning is required to avoid from more accidents.

Atmospheric conditions last night before launching:


Climatic states need aid Additionally help in the catastrophe about space shuttle, toward those
day for propelling of shuttle those morning about florida might have been exceptionally cool and
In the period from claiming propelling those temperature might have been 29 f Also may be
thick, as underneath the temperature for O-ring that might have been configuration to 53 f.
Because of those greatly icy temperature, the O-ring didnt situate appropriately. The heat-
resistant putty might have been likewise something like that icy that it didnt secure those O-
rings, and high temp gasses smoldered secret word both O-rings. As a result done frosty states O-
rings were not tried Also coldness extended those decrease about breadth about O-ring which
permitted the heated gasses with got away from fixed.

Professional responsibilities were neglected, if any?


There are two important responsibilities were neglected, one was safety and other was decision
making and stayed on it. In that disaster both responsibilities were neglected due to political
pressure. As the engineers of Thiokol told about the safety, but due to political pressure NASA
ignored it. So this misted they felt after the 73 second of launched of shuttle.

Many engineers assume administrative/managerial positions during their


careers. This was true in the case of NASA. Do you think that it was one of the
factors that resulted in the disaster? What would you have differently if you
were an engineer working in a management position? Explain.
Engineers should be appointed for technical assistance, repairing, designing and manufacturing
of new techniques in aerospace field. Its main task is to identify the problems and solve it. The
poor decision making becomes a major cause in disaster of challenger space shuttle. If I were
working on that position then I was taking the discussed with the engineer about the problem, if
we did not find it I was never taking a poor decision of that case. If any political pressure was
applied on me then I was resigned from my post.

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