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... The Cassini/Huygens mission, to explore Saturn and its moons, was the result of a successful cooperation among the space agencies of United States (NASA), Europe (ESA) and Italy (ASI). Launched ... mission, the developments refer to some scientific instruments and to major subsystems, critical for the success of the overall mission. It is the purpose of this paper to overview the elements ...

Including space tourists Helen Sharman, Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen, Anousheh Ansari, and Charles Simyoni, as of Oct 2007, 415 men and 48 women have gone into Earth orbit or beyond. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF (Ret.) Rick Searfoss Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer ...

Flying in space is dangerous, and always will be. It's an unforgiving environment. Currently we have lost one orbiter and its crew every 65 launches or so. I was excited, but didn't worry, you never expect it to happen to you. ---- Answer provided by Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie ...

Certainly. Think of locations you want to observe, but must be very high up or outside the atmosphere in order to see clearly. And think of questions about biology, or chemistry, or physics that have gravity or air pressure as important parts. Now, then, you have your list of missions best done in space. ---- Answer provided by Charles D. Walker, Ph.D Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

In 114 missions, there have been two tragic incidences. ---- Answer provided by Futron Corporation Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks.com/Books/For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space ...

... switched to an orbital flight, I think, maybe based on the success of Mercury Atlas 2. Then it wasn’t successful. It didn’t go orbital, but we played the whole thing ... , ’60, ’61, the Atlas was about 50 percent successful and not successful. Yet here we’re going to put men on it and be successful every time, which we were. We were confident ... course, they went on to have a pinpoint landing and also a very successful mission. '''Aldrich:''' Yes, very successful. I was very impressed with the ability to land next to the Surveyor ...

... their feelings and worked as a team and a crew that made it very successful. It was successful enough that this was something that Gus Virgil I. Grissom and them missed when ... , and know the capability of what they and their people could do to make it successful. '''Wright:''' Communication was certainly essential. How did you ensure that people knew what was going ... when we finished with the development of it we had a successful ICBM. Because what we were doing depended upon the success of that ICBM, and that ICBM, remember, was our first ...

... successes, even if applicable such as Apollo, shuttle, and the ISS, do not presage future success (Warren Bennis, Organizing for Success (10)). Well-thought out planning on multiple levels is essential for future success ... organizations committed to the task. Therefore, using the hypothesis given above, the particular equation for success of implementing a crew-centered exploration operations system, methodology, and associated infrastructure is: Crew-centric ...

... what allow us to position the instrument to the sub-millimeter alignment accuracy required for successful operation. Initial rail engagement requires a placement accuracy of only a centimeter, but as the ... . Rob Grover with a Mars Exploration Rover engineering model (Courtesy of NASA/JPL). Following the successful landing, control of the Phoenix mission was transferred to the Science Operations Centre (SOC) at ...

... adjacent to the landing site by autonomously avoiding obstacles. ref 9 Following up on this success, today, autonomous robotic vehicles are considered indispensable technology for planetary exploration. The Mars Exploration Rovers, ''Sprit '' and ''Opportunity'' , launched in 2003, have had remarkable successes, remaining operational in the harsh environment of Mars for over three years. Each has traveled ...

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