Executive Summary assignment

For Engineering we were to investigate and write an Executive Summary on the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the seven lives of the astronauts aboard. There are many reasons why the accident occurred, many of which people still do not know.
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On the morning of February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas just before it’s scheduled 28th mission, “STS-107”. This scheduled mission resulted in the loss of seven lives, the crew aboard the spacecraft.

Major unfixed issues were
-Communications with the N.A.S.A team were not functioning correctively and accordingly
-The camera was not in the right spot, looking at the right direction, causing it to be harder to determine the real damage issue of the left wing.
-Shedding of the foam
-Other minor issues

Although there were many unfixed issues about the spacecraft, there were also many fixed ones as well.

Major looked upon issues were
-The temperature, which was increased from 74-degrees Fahrenheit to 80-degrees Fahrenheit
-The water separators would not allow water to flow
-The settings of the 7A Tank Heater would only work automatically and not manually

Postmodernism 2

First face transplant done in the U.S.

Two weeks ago was the very first face transplant done in the United States. It was done by eight surgeons in Cleveland, Ohio. Eighty percent of the face was reconstructed, all except the woman's forehead and chin. Siemionow, who is the head of surgery research at the Cleveland Clinic, has been cleared to perform the full face transplant, but hadn't found the right patient until now. In this type of transplant, the donors face "flap" is attached, including the veins, arteries, and nerves. In any situation, the patients body could reject the connection. The recipient also has to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of their life, to forever prevent rejection of the tissue. Face transplants are usually done to people who have had trauma or accidents in the face. France and China have both completed face transplants, one victim was mauled by a dog and the other attacked by a bear. Face transplanting is a risky procedure, and has caused a lot of controversy since the first done in France. Generally, the face looks pretty different after the procedure, considering it is different skin with a different thickness. After these surgeries many people don't go outside and become depressed, and some consider suicide. The surgery is to give these people lives, and they are lucky to have the opportunity to still have one.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/17/face.transplant/index.html

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