In today ’ s fast-paced, driven society, much emphasis is placed on the final result of an endeavor. American society places premium on success; our culture has 1 tolerance for failures or losers. Within this culture framework it sometimes becomes easy to immediately 2 failures. However, value is not found only in success. 3 examples of the recent Columbia shuttle and the Vietnam War 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 led to a complete investigation of space program. 6 in the chain of command and the entire culture of NASA were exposed. As a result of the Columbia tragedy, NASA will re-examine its practices and change their way so something like this doesn ’ t happen again. Surely, this is a valuable thing to come from a horrible failure.