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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 ...

... then after the thing was all done, something that said, "Okay, this is all right, that's all right, and the objectives that were met…" So this started…in a room where ... the way the drawing says it's made. The dimensions are right, the materials are right, etc., and it's torqued right. It will work then. You don't have to have two ... . '''Butler:''' Certainly some very interesting opportunities that you had there, being in the right place at the right time, per se, to get in on the very, very beginnings of a lot ...

... it wanted to go. And so that guidance system would take you right down if you gave it the right information. It was a good system. '''Ward:''' The mascon as I—problem ... sure that nobody had seen that. But unfortunately the TV camera— '''Ward:''' Right on you. '''Duke:''' —was pointed right at me, and so everybody had seen this. But I recovered, and we ... :''' Yeah. '''Duke:''' Because I was—so I was able to spin right and—before I hit, and my right foot and right hand hit, and I bounced on to my back. And John ...

... having simulations of running these missions and flying these missions and interacting with the crew. Right from the very beginning, again, this group of expert people from these different places, I ... did all this, and I thought, boy, I’m sure glad the right displays showed up on the right pens, and I’m sure glad that when you threw that switch, the ... it’s a very high hill with a peak and the site’s right at the top. Right at the base of it that you’d drive by on the way to ...

... 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 ... 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 ...

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