Engineering failures Engineering failures The Schoharie Creek in New York State flows from the foot of Indian Head in the Catskill Mountains to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville to create New York City's Schoharie Reservoir and the Blenheim-Gilboa Power Project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Schoharie Creek"
The Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC Memorial Bridge is named after Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC and is located in Latchford, Ontario where Highway 11 crosses the Montreal River. On January 14, 2003 there was a partial failure of the bridge on this major highway, resulting in the closure of the highway and several recommendations to avoid future bridge failures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC Memorial Bridge"
The South Fork Dam was located on Lake Conemaugh, an artificial body of water located near South Fork, Pennsylvania. On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed and 20 million tons of water from Lake Conemaugh burst through and raced 14 miles (23 km) downstream, causing the Johnstown Flood. ...more on Wikipedia about "South Fork Dam"
Space disasters, either during operations or training, have killed around 20 astronauts and cosmonauts (5% of all people who have been in space), and a much larger number of ground crew. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space disaster"
Space Shuttle Challenger ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983, and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before exploding 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986. (For more on the Challenger disaster, see STS-51-L.) It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Shuttle Challenger"
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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia over Texas on February 1, 2003, during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere on its 28th mission, STS-107. The entire seven-member crew died. Many vehicle fragments and some human remains were recovered after a massive ground search that incurred two additional fatalities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Shuttle Columbia disaster"
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The St. Francis Dam was a concrete-arched gravity dam built as a large reservoir near the city of Los Angeles, California. The dam was built between 1924 and 1926 under the supervision of William Mulholland, an engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed. The resulting flood killed more than 400 people. ...more on Wikipedia about "St. Francis Dam"
STS-107 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched January 16, 2003. The seven-member crew was killed on February 1, 2003, when the shuttle disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. The cause for the accident was a piece of foam that broke off during launch and damaged the thermal protection tiles in the left wing of the Shuttle orbiter, causing an extensive heat build-up. During reentry the damaged wing slowly overheated and came apart, eventually leading to loss of control and total disintegration of the vehicle. (For more on the accident, see Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.) ...more on Wikipedia about "STS-107"
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a mile-long (1600 meter) suspension bridge with a main span of 2800 foot (850 m) (the third- largest in the world when it was first built) that carries Washington State Route 16 across the Tacoma Narrows of Puget Sound from Tacoma to Gig Harbor, Washington. The first version of the bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," was designed by Clark Eldridge and altered by Leon Moisseiff. It became famous for a dramatic filmed structural collapse in 1940. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tacoma Narrows Bridge"
The Teton Dam was a dam on the Teton River in southeastern Idaho in the United States that suffered a spectacular failure on June 5, 1976. The collapse resulted in the loss of 11 lives and a monetary cost of close to USD $1 billion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Teton Dam"
Three Mile Island is the location of a U.S. nuclear power plant that, on March 28, 1979, suffered a partial core meltdown. The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station sits on the island in the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, of area 3.29 km² (814 acres). ...more on Wikipedia about "Three Mile Island"
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is a civilian nuclear power plant located on an artificial island (Three Mile Island) in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. It was originally built with two pressurized water reactors (TMI-1 and TMI-2), but after TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown in 1979, its core was removed from the site. For more information on the nuclear accident, see the page on Three Mile Island, which discusses it exclusively. ...more on Wikipedia about "Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station"
On October 10, 1957, the graphite core of a British nuclear reactor at Windscale, Cumbria, caught fire releasing substantial amounts of radioactive contamination into the surrounding area. The event, known as the Windscale fire, was considered the world's worst nuclear accident until it was dwarfed by the Chernobyl accident in 1986. ...more on Wikipedia about "Windscale fire" Visit again http://www.shortopedia.com shortopedia
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