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... necessary for the current mission. We usually are not that far from the right technology. It is either stowed aboard the vehicles or transported to the vehicle, as in ... worthwhile. As one of the astronauts stated, "I think we explore because it's the right thing to do to learn. We've always been explorers. It's in our nature ...

... will be needed. These industries will need all sorts of different skills, so you're right—not just rocket scientists will be needed. In space there will be a need ...

... needed and if they are available. The tested procedures would take into account having the right tools and ensuring that the problem can be fixed with the tools available to the ...

... living places are very simple. It is not hard to live in space with the right equipment and training. Over the next many years we will build larger and higher quality ...

Weighted shoes would help you to function more normally in a reduced gravity environment; however if there were no gravity, weighted shoes would not help. Every celestial body has a specific escape velocity—this is the speed that needs to be achieved to escape the gravitational pull. For the Earth, this speed is approximately 25,000 miles per hour (mph). For the Moon, it is about 5,300 mph. ...

For launch the Space Shuttle's external tank is loaded with about 230 thousand pounds of liquid hydrogen and 1.4 million pounds of liquid oxygen. Additionally, just for the ascent part of flight, each solid rocket booster will burn approximately a million pounds of solid propellant. These are highly flammable substances. There are many plans and emergency procedures for the crew to escape during ...

... ; and then we had a urine dump on the bottom. So at the right time, we could purge hydrogen, purge oxygen, and dump urine. That gave us three more attitude thrusters. By really ... correct. '''Neal:''' And Leonov eventually wound up being commander during Apollo-Soyuz. '''Cooper:''' That’s right. '''Neal:''' Alexei. How about Belyayev? '''Cooper:''' Belyayev died about 3 years later of pneumonia. '''Neal ...

... cooling systems in later suits. But the Gemini system relied just on the dry oxygen purging the suit and evaporation to cool, so we were limited to about 1000 BTUs British ... retire when I did. That was before they even talked to USA. Everything was right at the right time. '''Rusnak:''' You mentioned earlier some of the involvement you had with the investigation ... get all these millions of things to come together, click at the right moment, and all the weather to be right." And we do it remarkably well. It amazes me how many ...

... works with all the astronauts as opposed to having one specific technician for each? '''Alexander:''' Right. '''Rusnak:''' How do your assignments work? '''Alexander:''' Until just recently there were three NASA suit ... liquid-cooling garments. We check them, make repairs to them, and purge the air bubbles in the liquid-cooling units. Right now we have a two-man liquid-cooling unit that we ... on and off, whatever the configuration for that crewman is, that it is the right size, that the right harness is there, that it's configured properly. That's an important operation ...

... about my boss’ desires, but in retrospect, it worked well. You’d walk right through the Skylab and right out the other end, and it’s a much more dynamic feeling. So ... Union. So all along the way my responsibility was to make sure that the right people got the right presentations, it was appropriate for their particular level, especially in the Soviet Union ... afraid that his life might be in danger, and he said, “If I survive the purge, then everything will be okay.” I followed him to the train station. Two Russians followed ...

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