lets see here not counting the firsts of rockets, there were Apollo 1, Apollo 13 (but they got back alive), then columbia, and lastly Challenger which is the most reasent one.
According to NASA there have been a total of 119 shuttle missions of which 110 occurred after the Challenger disaster.
There are about 18,000 NASA employees.
NASA has had 92 missions.
Challenger was a space shuttle built by NASA. It exploded on January 28, 1986 which was a major disaster. After the accident, NASA's Space Shuttle fleet was grounded for almost three years.
The Mercury Program was the first manned space flight program,
According to NASA there have been a total of 119 shuttle missions of which 110 occurred after the Challenger disaster.
The Hubble telescope was the first telescope built by NASA and placed into orbit. The original launch for the telescope was delayed because of the disaster seen by the Challenger.
There were a couple of people who happened to record the Columbia space shuttle disaster. That was such an awful time for NASA. They went through some downtime.
There are about 18,000 NASA employees.
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NASA has had 92 missions.
Challenger was a space shuttle built by NASA. It exploded on January 28, 1986 which was a major disaster. After the accident, NASA's Space Shuttle fleet was grounded for almost three years.
Kalpana Chawla, who died in the Columbia shuttle disaster, and Sunita Williams, an active astronaut with NASA, are of Indian ancestry.
The Mercury Program was the first manned space flight program,
The people's reaction was devastating. Some people lost family members which was really hard for them to go through. People just didn't know what to say. All they could say is " how can this of happen?" The Challenger disaster shocked many because NASA had not lost any astronauts during a mission up until then. People had forgotten the dangers of space travel and this was a wake-up call for everyone, especially those in NASA where some degree of complacency had crept in. The disaster prompted investigations into NASA's operations which changed the way missions were planned and their function. The degree of shock and grief was heightened because one of the astronauts was civilian Christa McAuliffe who was to have been the first teacher in space. Many schoolchildren were watching the launch and saw the disaster as it happened.
As of June 2011 18,968 people worked for NASA.
The commission's recommended that NASA needed to restructure its management so that change could take place. NASA's management needed to tighten its control to establish higher safety regulations for shuttle safety. Both the Challenger and Columbia had safety issues that were either overlooked or brushed under the rug. NASA also had major communication problems before, during, and after both disasters. The lack of communication posed a significant safety issue for everyone in the space program.