NASA Website Analysis: A Warm Climate
What I found most intriguing about NASA's website, was the abundance
of information available. When looking at the history of the
Challenger I was very fascinated to read the transcript from the
missions voice recorder and see how light hearted the conversation
seemed to be before the disaster. Although they talked of technical
information you could see that they laughed at each other and joked
around, yet still being serious only to have a tragedy occur
momentarily.
One thing that stood out to me most about the Columbia disaster was
the Interactive Tribute to the Fallen Heroes of Columbia
(http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/). This stood out to me, because
when you clicked on the memories link, it showed cards made by
students expressing their condolences. Although there was information
on how the disaster happened and recommendations for the problems that
occurred, I think this showed a warm, heart felt side of NASA and goes
to show that although NASA faced tragedies they dealt with the crises
on many levels (which is a different view than what the Tompkins book
gave me).
As a result of exploring the website, I realized NASA has put a lot of
time into providing education to people. For example, the first thing
I noticed when I opened the home page was the links for kids,
educators and researchers. I feel as though NASA considers education a
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