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A 5 page overview of the Reagan administrations partial responsibility for the 1986 space shuttle explosion and the loss of the lives of its seven crew members. This paper elucidates on then-President Ronald Reagan’s use of rhetoric to console the American public while at the same time avoiding direct responsibility for the disaster. A neo-Aristotelian analysis of his speech the day of the incident addresses the five canons of invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger would begin its last and twenty-fifth mission on January 28, 1986. This mission, however, would be unlike any other.
Shortly after lift off the shuttle exploded in a fiery blast, killing all seven of its crew members and etching the names Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair,
Ellison Onizuka, and Gregory Jarvis into our minds forever. This mission was also unique in that it included S. Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian to ever be allowed a
space mission. Although McAuliffes life was of no greater importance than the other six lives aboard the Challenger, her loss was particularly felt because she was not an astronaut,
she was a teacher. She was aboard the Challenger as an observer in the NASA Teacher in Space Program. Although the disaster would have been bad enough, McAuliffes
presence on the flight lent a particularly profound societal impact and those in responsible positions had an even more difficult job before them in explaining the disaster to the American
public. Then-President Ronald Reagan, in particular, had much to explain after the Challenger disaster. It was his administration, after all,
that had been intent on having the Shuttle be declared operational while it was in fact still in the developmental phase (Forrest, 2002). This declaration resulted in decreased NASA
moral and left the distinct impression that the shuttle program would be managed by politics and not by sound engineering reality (Forrest, 2002). Although concerns had been
aired about the functionality of the crafts "O" rings in the extremely cold temperatures, those concerns had been dismissed in favor of a timely launch (Forrest, 2002).
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