In today's fast-paced society, much emphasis is placed on the final result of an endeavor. American society places a premium on success; our culture has 1 tolerance for failures or losers. Within this cultural framework it sometimes becomes easy to immediately 2 failures. However, value is not found only in success. 3 the example of the Columbia space shuttle disaster demonstrates, events that are not successful still have 4 . When the Columbia space shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry, the American people experienced a great 5 . The failure of NASA engineers to 6 this disaster shocked the nation. 7 , many people would argue that there is no value in this horrific failure. But the Columbia tragedy led to a complete investigation of the space program. 8 in the chain of command and in the entire culture of NASA were exposed. 9 the Columbia tragedy, NASA will re-examine its practices and change its ways so things like this will not happen again. Surely, this is a valuable thing to come from a horrible failure. Clearly, there is much value in things that are not successful. The Columbia disaster is 10 one example of unsuccessful events that led to valuable lessons and changes. There is much to be learned from a failure and those who focus only on success will miss out on valuable lessons.