Human Error: Space Shuttle Challenger And The Titanic

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Human Error Is Avertable

While some human errors can lead to accidental success, history has proven that human error comes down to lack of communication, not being observant, or not being cautious. Because when creating new technology such as NASA's Space Shuttle or the "unsinkable," the inventors fool themselves to believe that nothing can go wrong, when in most cases it's the complete opposite. Not listening to superiors and taking major warning signs into account, made them vulnerable to technological infallibility. Space Shuttle Challenger and the Titanic could have easily been avoided if people took warnings into account. January 28, 1986 the NASA’s first ever Space Shuttle Challenger exploded into oblivion along with its seven crew …show more content…

Investigation revealed that the O-rings became brittle from the 36 degree temperature and failed. The investigation also revealed that the company that designed the solid rocket boosters, Morton Thiokol, ignored the warnings they were given about the potential issues and never passed that information along to the engineers that built the shuttle. But, the NASA managers heard about the design problems and failed to take action (Peter Greier, …show more content…

This British ocean liner was one of the biggest cruise ships ever made. The ship began its maiden voyage in the early morning of April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to New York City. Mainly the ships 2,200 passengers were of deathly upper-class families looking for a good time in the city, while a smaller amount was people going to the city to find work. Many thought that when they board the ship, they were in for the trip of a lifetime. Well, that trip soon ended in tragedy. The Titanic sank early in the morning on the 15th when the ship hit an iceberg. Captain Edward J. Smith had the ship sailing full speed ahead despite the concerns about several icebergs. The ship received multiple warnings about dangerous ice fields in the North over the telegraph. General Corfield who was in charge of warning the captain of any obstacles along the way, said he failed to pass the warning along by senior radio operator, Jack Phillips. The “unsinkable” was actually built with very sinkable cheap material. It was built with low-grade iron rivets instead of the more expensive higher-grade material rivets. These small details easily could have been avoided (history.com

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