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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 ...

... days, close the vents, backfill with oxygen to a third of an atmosphere, and then undo the seventy-two bolts, through an adapter section, of course, and let the crew come ... Russia, Mr. Leonid Brezhnev. He wanted to introduce the Skylab crew just down from our successful mission to Mr. Brezhnev, so off we went on the chopper and down. We were ... agency ever. You know, the atmosphere just turned around completely. In its terrible and ultimately successfully efforts to get out from under the /Challenger/ accident and get back to flight, the ...

... wasn't really required. '''Butler:''' When you returned from the flight training, which had gone successfully, and you did quite well in the program and came back to NASA, then you ... , the first mission was going to be launched, and then, secondly, whether it would be successful. Once that worked, then I started thinking, well, maybe I will get a shot. And ... a screwdriver from the side. I don't know if you've ever tried to undo a screw from the side with bulky gloves on and with someone holding your feet ...

... me. Thus I rode on the manipulator arm and used a long socket wrench to undo the bolts on the old gyros. Story could then install them as I tightened the ... 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 ...

... , and you had to maintain triple containment. And so the question was, how can you undo this valve that you had to take this cap off. Once you take the cap ... modules. And, yes, we felt very confident that what we ended up, that eventually flew successfully, were excellent spacecraft. '''Bergen:''' Apollo 8 was a great triumph for NASA, for North American ... work, the canopy they put over the separated micrometeoroid shield and making it a habitable successful spacecraft. Technically, it was very interesting and fascinating. '''Bergen:''' For Skylab, you went to McDonnell ...

... like that, it’s still as it was, because it doesn’t make sense to undo. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Right. Has the facility been modified in any other way since the Space ... big part of what goes in to make a lab like that run and operate successfully, is the proper control of the facility itself. Otherwise, what you test is not what ... , we have a lot of systems still around that we haven’t been able to successfully convince that you need to pump some more dollars in there to upgrade this machine ...

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