Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Columbia a decission of money and politics

The Empowerment in the Columbia deserter comes to the point that people don’t like to be wrong.
I think also where money and politics involved there becomes a lot of pressure that could lead to a lot miscommunication. “Time becomes money”
Also the look of confidence and seeing people more like objects things could go wrong.
As a concern the people in charge I feel they where more preoccupied with the safety of the shuttle instead with the safety of the astronauts.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Columbia Final Mission

Columbia Final Mission
Case Study
01/12/07
Claudiu Bora
Questions:
What NASA learn from this tragedy?
Where did the communication flail?
Can the foam can be replaced with a different material?
Why there is always need of some type of sacrifice before something is done?
(Ex 9/11)
Why in the Columbia disaster nobody took responsibility?
In a life dead circumstance who has the right the way to the final decision?
How many people should be involved in a case like that?
In the Columbia disaster was a communication problem or a technical and political problem?
How much political influence should be in the NASA missions?

Things I that I learn from the class discussion
There where to many parties involved in the decision of what to be done and some where the main decision was lost n the middle which cause to come to a nobody want to take the responsibility of the incident.
Political influence had play a role in this deserter as well they where aware about the problem before even was a problem but was nothing done to stop that. There where attempts but was more like “we need facts and not doubts”.
Having to many centers and trying to connect them was a problem that NSA was also dealing with. I think even having that could work for example the US National Bank has more than one brunch but works very smooth so is possible because there is not a political influence at al is an independent and neutral branch of the U.S.A
For some reasons feel like America likes to take risk which I think is a part of the culture but in the same time is a danger ground in specially when you deal with a space program where you have decisions in a hundreds of seconds, minutes and hours. Some of the decisions that are to be made in NASA are irreversible. So there need to be responsibility and accountability.
I think NASA becomes a successful program because they look to the mistakes and they trying to fix them but that is only from the technical point of view. NASA is still facing the communication problem as well working on the political clock will made the future mission as dangerous as Columbia.

Organization that I been involved in
I think the best example will be the LDS Church that has a perfect structure.
Another one will be working as a supervisor in the MC where you have a school president, manager, employee’s supervisors that break down in more with more responsibility and with less and after that goes to student supervisor which is me and to the student. From experience I saw a lot of times the system falling some where
But I think the way some systems are they could recover. Is more like having an emergency electric generator. If you have a failure you have something to back out the problem with so in this way you could fix the problem and not be affected by.