Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address: Questions
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address: Questions
- How is a speech delivered via television different than one delivered in public? Imagine what it would have been like if Reagan delivered this speech in a stadium. Would it have been successful?
- Does President Reagan adequately justify the loss of the astronauts' lives in the name of scientific breakthroughs? Justify your answer.
- Reagan never directly references the U.S.S.R., but how can you infer that he was referencing the political conditions of the Cold War?
- Is it possible that Reagan's speech was just as much for the Soviets as it was for Americans?
- How might you respond to Reagan's speech if you were a family member or friend of one of the Challenger Seven? Would you find it an appropriate elegy…or a political stunt?
- Does Reagan's language favor a strictly Christian perspective?