A Hoosier astronaut visited Muncie to speak to business and community leaders on the importance of communication.
Some of the most common problems faced by society today stem from a failure to communicate and complacency, David Wolf said this morning at the Horizon Convention Center.
“When things go bad in space, they go bad fast,” he said. “And it’s much like in your local businesses without the nation watching.”
Wolf used the Columbia and Challenger disasters as an example of his point. He said their immediate causes were easy to identify.
“The real problem lies in the culture,” he said. “If you go back to the Apollo era, we had the same problems then that we did during the space shuttle.”
He said the destruction of the Columbia and Challenger shuttles and loss of their crews could have been prevented if there had been clear communication with everyone involved.
“Some people knew [the Challenger explosion] was going to happen, and the information wasn’t communicated to the top,” he said. “You can’t fool reality for long. Sine then, we have redone communication so a dissenting opinion is no longer a bad thing.”
Wolf also discussed the experience of working with other astronauts to perform extra-vehicular activities on the International Space Station, such as installing additional modules.
Wolf added the successes of these missions depend on the individual and the team working together by “making sure the facts are communicated.”
Nancy Richardson, administrative coordinator for the Ball State Department of Educational Leadership and sister of an astronaut, said she loved Wolf’s presentation.
“Every bit of it, the way they train, the risks they take and their innovations are just so inspiring,” Richardson said. “There are so many beneficial discoveries they make that affect the human race.”
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