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Space disater

Space for America has always been a new and interesting frontier. The earth is a very safe place, when you put it against the unknown outer space. On January 27th 1967, the world witness firsthand how dangerous space travel can be. Then later, on January 28th 1986, the space program was hit with another disaster occurred when the space shuttle Challenger blew up seventy two seconds after liftoff. The Apollo I and Challenger space disasters occurred nearly nineteen years apart to the day, yet they shared many aspects of one another. Nearly nineteen years later, NASA was still making the same mistake, and was still dealing with the same issues of budget cuts, loss of public interest, and rising costs that had disrupted the organization about twenty years before.
When president John F. Kennedy gave his promise to the American people that he would land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, he did not even begin to comprehend what he had unleashed. After the massive success of...

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