The Challenger was a space shuttle of great experience. Before its last journey it had witnessed the first steps of man and the first woman on the moon. It was named after the British Naval research vessel that sailed the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean during the 1870’s. The Challenger certainly made its scientific contribution to the sense of exploration because the Apollo 17 also carried the name Challenger (Space Shuttle Overview: Challenger n.p.). The next and last journey of the space shuttle was on January 28, 1986 when the US Space Challenger broke apart seventy-three seconds after lift off.
The third thing that MR-3 wanted to achieve was to study man's physiological reactions during space flight. The fourth and final objective for MR- was to recover the astronaut and spacecraft. The man who made it on the ship was Mister Alan B. Shepard. The MR-3 took off at LC 5, Florida, USA on May 5, 1961 at 14:34:13. The craft landed later that same day only 15 minutes and 22 seconds later.
Michael Squillacote 9/28/11 Professor Blum Business paper Challenger Shuttle The Challenger space shuttle was set off to launch on January 28th 1987. This turned into a tragic day for NASA and the United States. At 11:38 am Challenger took of from the launch pad. Everything was going smoothly until 73 seconds into the flight the shuttle disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean killing seven astronauts. There are a few different theories on what went wrong to the shuttle.
The astronauts reduced their consumption of drinking water to six ounces per day and their consumption of electricity by 80 percent. However, the lunar module's lithium hydroxide cartridges that removed carbon dioxide from the air would last only about 50 hours, and those from the command module were not designed to fit Aquarius. Therefore, engineers on the ground devised a makeshift adapter scheme, radioing to Apollo 13 instructions on how to attach the cartridges from the command module to the lunar module hoses. During the morning of April 15, Apollo 13 entered the region of gravitational influence of Earth, at a distance from Earth's surface of 216,277 miles. Calculations showed that the speeded-up trajectory needed an additional refinement, and so the lunar module descent propulsion system was again ignited.
Ast 103 Amber Titus Shrinking Moon Lab The moon along with the rest of Earth’s atmosphere has such a major impact of human’s lives. Space has provided natural entertainment of shooting stars, planets, comets, stars, and meteorites. The one space object that has stuck out to me and I am sure others is, the moon. The moon places a huge role in everyday life because we see it rise, set change phases, change colors, etc. With all this change people are constantly questioning certain things about the moon and its origins.
Christian Flores WRC 1013-08 Ms Hudson October 16, 2012 Apollo 11 The myth busters are a group of scientist and special effects professionals that work together to solve their viewers questions about modern myths that deal with special effects for example, Apollo 11. They are made up of 5 people Adam Savage, Jaime Hyneman, Grant Imahara, Kary Byron, and Tory Belleci. Apollo 11 had and still has several conspiracy theories. One of the most common theories is that Apollo 11 was staged in a studio instead of being actual footage of man’s first steps on the moon. Since this is such an important part of history the myth busters wanted to prove that the Apollo 11 mission was in fact true.
The Space shuttle Challenger was NASA’s second vehicle to be put into service however; on January 28, 1986 it would make its final departure from Kennedy Space Center. Seventy three seconds into flight two O-rings located in the right rocket booster disintegrated causing flames to escape their designated area and dislodge the
The Apollo program was conceived in 1960, but it wasn’t until May 25, 1961 that Kennedy had given his speech to announce his support for the program. When America found out that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space on April 12, 1961, it had given Kennedy the extra incentive needed to support the space program.
However, I had an opportunity to do something big in another city and I was feeling the pressure of wanting this new challenge. I spent at least 5 months thinking it over, writing down and weighing the pros and cons, and asking for advice from friends and family. I investigated all of my options with the military extensively. I made sure I knew and understood all of the details of this new opportunity. I wrote out all of the pros and cons several times and meditated on them, weighing them.
It was roughly eighteen years ago that my life was forever changed. Seeing the flashing lights and intricate graphs of NASA’s (National Atmospheric and Space Administration) mission control in Houston, Texas brought about feelings of a new hope and wonder that I had never experienced before. I knew for that point on that I wanted to work in NASA’s mission control with all my heart. My passion for this field was first enticed in 1995 when a history making blockbuster known as Apollo 13 came out. This brilliantly directed film by Ron Howard showed how the Apollo 13 spacecraft underwent massive internal damage and only by the combined efforts of NASA’s mission control was the crew saved.