Speech On The Challenger Space Shuttle

My experience during the learning process of Ronald Reagan’s Speech about the Challenger space shuttle and the space program itself was interesting. I never knew the elements that went into the space shuttle or the time it took to prepare before launch. Such as, payloads and a variety of tests that check if it is safe for flight. Also, the various parts and attachments like the satellites that they were wanting to use for observation for Halley’s Comet. The original plan for the Challenger would have been a great learning experience for the children of America and the space program. Later, they ended up succeeding with their plans and sending out other shuttles and satellites to continue their exploration in space. Since the 1986 disaster happened they also went under many investigations because many people have theories to why this occurred. They could have prevented it, but the people of the space program wanted to continue with their plans since it took a lot of time, effort, and money. The original creator of the rubber o’s knew that there was a defect in their product, but carried on with selling it. NASA knew there was a possible defect and

still purchased it and used it on the challenger space shuttle. NASA also knew that the weather needs to be close to perfect for launch and Kennedy Space Center was experiencing very chilly weather in the 30’s. The weather was freezing parts of the space shuttle and throwing off the gasses in the tanks of the space shuttle. They kept delaying it and in my opinion with all these delays they should have cancelled it completely until they were 100% positive that the flight would be a success.
Ronald Reagan was one of my favorite presidents to ever learn about in school.

His speech about the loss of 7 lives on the Challenger had plenty of pathos and ethos. His emotion was perfect for the speech since it was a eulogy type of speech for the people especially for the children. The Challenger launch was live on Television and almost half the nation was tuning in and many children and families were at the center watching it in person. The devastation and confusion on their faces explained how every other person in the nation was feeling too. He created a speech that would explain the mission of the space program. As well, created confidence for everyone that we will keep exploring the unknown and remember the space pioneers that died trying to learn more about this enormous Universe for our

nation.
I enjoyed the research I found relating towards this historical speech and learning how he delivered the speech. He knew the nation was mourning and in distraught. He didn’t avoid it, yet he made a speech that would move this nation and create a more understanding and better space program. To conclude this, they didn’t have another mission for many years since they wanted to avoid the same mistake they created. To this day, they still recognize the courageous astronauts.