ENAE288B

Topics in Aerospace Engineering; Student Initiated Course Failures in Human Spaceflight

Failures in Human Spaceflight: Apollo 1, Challenger, & Columbia provides an introduction to fatal accidents in American spaceflight history. Students will study the engineering failures and management decisions leading to each disaster. Additionally, they will consider the investigations, public responses, and impacts prompted by the accidents.Readings will include official accident reports, internal NASAcommunications, and personal accounts. Students will discuss how these disasters shaped modern risk management and what lessons were learned - or ignored - along the way.

Sister Courses: ENAE288A

Fall 2025

Alison Flatau

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Caleb Becker-Schwartz

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

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