Columbia was tragically destroyed during its return to Earth

Last updated: 2/1/2023

Columbia was tragically destroyed during its return to Earth This was the result of a variety of engineering decisions that we can still learn from today Read the blog post by retired NASA Space Shuttle flight director and program manager Wayne Hale https waynehale wordpress com 2013 01 31 after ten years enduring lessons Write a personal reflection based on the blog post Consider the following prompts What can you learn from this tragic event that you can apply to your career as an engineer What actions by engineers could have potentially prevented the loss of Columbia In what ways are these lessons connected to this class Measurements Instrumentation Are there measurements that perhaps should have been made but weren t or measurements that were not made with sufficient