Archive for January, 2011

Richard C. Cook Appears at Chapman University Symposium on Challenger Disaster

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Space shuttle Challenger disaster revisted at symposium January 27, 2011 tags: anniversary, leadership, NASA, Space Shuttle Challenger by chapmannews Failed O-rings, damaged fuel tanks and ice debris are all parts in the tragic story that led to the space shuttle Challenger disaster 25 years ago this week. But the bigger lesson of that episode in the [...]

Orlando Sentinel: NASA’s Culture Kept Safety from Forefront by Richard C. Cook

Friday, January 28th, 2011

January 28, 2011|By Richard C. Cook | Guest columnist A little more than a minute after Challenger was launched at the Kennedy Space Center on a frigid winter morning 25 years ago, the shuttle broke to pieces when an o-ring joint in one of the solid rocket boosters failed, and the seven Challenger astronauts died. [...]

Comments by Former NASA Whistleblower Richard C. Cook to Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Challenger Disaster

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Answering the Call of Space:  Lessons of Tragedy and Triumph from the Challenger Disaster  January 28, 2011, is the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. A little more than a minute after Challenger was launched at the Kennedy Space Center that cold winter morning, the shuttle broke to pieces when an O-ring joint [...]

Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.