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... root much earlier. As a young NASA engineer who had already worked five years in the Apollo program, I was part of the team that helped bring Apollo 13 back to Earth safely ... Aerospace Technology Working Group, to promote the future of humans in space. It was collaboration, intensity, action, and the integration of science and spirit that brought the Apollo 13 astronauts back safely ... we are still left with huge relevant questions that need to be asked involving Why? How? and When? The challenges are immense. In Chapter 5 of this book Yehezkel Dror states ...

... ourselves and our world. The demands of everyday life slow most work. Scientists and engineers are people and they must stop work to eat, sleep, spend time with their families and friends, play with their pets, watch TV, enjoy recreational activities— all the things everyone else does. But all ...

When using the ISS or Shuttle telephone, it does not take much longer to make a connection than it does here on Earth. Connections are not a problem. The ground controllers are in constant ...

... Earth—Earth is a very unique place. However, in 20 years a few people could be living there in spacesuits and in cities that feel like it does here on Earth. In 50 years we should have more extensive towns in space where people will be working and playing. The time frame really ...

... retirement in 2010.” NASA was maintaining sufficient work in house to protect and strengthen its core capabilities and had established a Shuttle Human Capital Working Group to oversee the complex Shuttle workforce issues ... and Aeronautics, The NASA Workforce: Does NASA Have the Right Strategy and Policies To Retain and Build the Workforce It Will Need? 109th Cong., 2nd sess., 13 June 2006, 14, 17, 81 ...

... should be able to be as short as half a day, and shorter as it becomes more routine, like airplane travel. It depends how much you want to cover. Longer training of up to a week will be available for people who want to learn ...

... their extra vehicular activity (EVA) spacewalks by practicing underwater. They do not need to know how to swim though, because they are in their spacesuits breathing air and just move around ... spaceflight training will probably not involve underwater training so you will not have to know how to swim either. ---- Answer provided by Tim Bailey & Loretta Hidalgo Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

Physical exertion either due to gravity, the suit, or required work will dictate the respiration rate. The more fit a person is, the better he or she will be able to handle the work load that is demanded. This then will mean a more efficient use of oxygen. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt & Russell ...

That's a very difficult question. The original costs varied from Shuttle to Shuttle. The early ones, like ... , cost approximately $2 billion, in round numbers. The later ones cost even more. This number does not include the costs of the research and development that went into designing and testing ... course at this point, the Space Shuttle program is facing retirement in 2010, so in a very short while we will not have the capability to build or fly another one ...

... costs NASA to fly the Space Shuttle once, then that number is a little easier to find. Depending on how you count it's between $500 million and $1.5 billion. ---- Answer ...

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