Mark Arcuri is a hard worker, energetic but lazy at times and a family man. He loves the outdoors and doesn’t worry about the things that he cannot control. An important part of Mark’s life was the Challenger spaceship explosion. This occured on January 28, 1986. This catastrophe resulted in all 7 of the crew members’ deaths. Many Americans were watching the TV, including Mark, just as the spaceship exploded and disintegrated into the air. When Mark heard about this he remembered he was in social studies class his sophomore year of high school. What made this event so memorable was the tragic loss of lives of the 7 courageous pilots and crew aboard. At the time, Mark felt very sad that those pilot had lost their lives after pursuing their dreams. They had done so much in-depth training to get to where they were and they died. Mark felt so mournful because those pilots had become great citizens, heroes, to this country and they died doing the thing that they loved. They died doing the thing that they had spent so much time training for. …show more content…
Mark believes that unless you have a very important reason to go to space, you don’t have a legitimate reason to spend millions of dollars. Many countries spend billions on competing with other countries just to prove something to the other. Although it is honored and noble to have an accomplishment in space, peoples lives are in danger every time a spaceship is launched into space. On the other hand, positive things did come out of this. After the explosion NASA closed the space program. They developed much safer parts to the shuttle to reduce the likelihood of that heartbreaking event ever happening again. New decision making policies for before launched were changed, the rocket design was changed, and many other changes were