Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address: Compare and Contrast
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address: Compare and Contrast
Eugene Kranz's "Tough and Competent" Speech after the Apollo 1 Accident
Less than a month before the Apollo 1 was supposed to land on the moon, it caught fire during a launch rehearsal on January 27, 1967. It killed all three of its crew members. Whoa.Turns out the fir...
Ronald Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on the Space Program
Reagan's Challenger address wasn't the first time he spoke to America about its space program. He was actually a longtime fan of space exploration and advancements in the possibilities of space res...
George H. W. Bush's "Teacher in Space" Announcement
Toward the end of his first presidential term, Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project (TISP), Working with NASA, the TISP was intended to expand the boundaries of the American education syst...
Report to the President by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
You won't find this one in the paperback section of your local supermarket. Drier than the Mojave Desert, the "Report to the President by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger...
Remarks by the President on the Loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia by George W. Bush
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in the sky as it reentered the Earth's atmosphere over east Texas. Needless to say, there were no survivors. Like Reagan before him, Pr...