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iNameInstitutionCourseDate The cultural tale of two shuttle A culture is a set of shared beliefs, assumptions, and values that controls people’s behavior in an organization (John & Kruse, 2019). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which is in charge of the civilian program in space, aerospace and research in aeronautics needs a culture that is fundamentally different since it works with technologies of high complexity and incredibly high stakes (Lu, 2017). This paper outlines NASA’s culture factors that contributed the Columbia and Challenger shuttle accident, the possible identity of values, performances, and cultural markers that were critical, important things that could have been done to establish aesthetic changes more effective and lasting, and how Karl Weick’s model of organization could be brought bear on the disasters and identification of sensemaking factors that actors used in copying with equivocality and if these contributed to what occured at NASA. NASA's culture factors that contributed to the Columbia and the Challenger shuttle disaster According to the case study, the Augustine Report on the future of U.S. space program states culture as the top essential ingredient of a space program success. Culture factors in