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This began on April 12, 1981 with the launch of Columbia.
What is the space shuttle era?
This part of the shuttle made the trip all the way into orbit and carried the crew and payload.
What is the orbiter?
This was the first space shuttle built and it flew the first four shuttle flights.
What is the Columbia?
This was the second shuttle built.
What is the Challenger?
This was the 3rd space shuttle constructed and the one to fly the last shuttle mission.
This is the name of the Chinese space station that was launched in 2021.
What is Tiangong.
What was the final shuttle to launch into space?
What is Atlantis on STS-135 in July 2011.
She was the first teacher astronaut slated to fly into space on the Challenger's 10th mission.
Who was Christa McAuliffe?
This shuttle was build to replace the Challenger and was named by elementary and high school students nationwide.
What is the Endeavor?
This part of the space shuttle was jettisoned (dropped) into the Atlantic Ocean after use and was retrieved and reused.
What are the (rocket) boosters?
This the is "test" shuttle that actually never flew in space.
What is the Enterprise?
Of the 2 space stations orbiting Earth, describe which is larger.
The ISS is compared the size of 6 bedroom house with modules belonging to the different member countries. Tiangong is about ⅓ the size of the ISS.
This is how many many space shuttle missions were carried out by NASA.
What is 135?
How long has the ISS been in orbit?
What is 25 years? It has been continuously occupied since November 2000!
This part of shuttle was the only part not reused for later missions; it burned up in the atmosphere about 9 minutes after every shuttle launch.
What is the external tank?
What is all the pieces were launched into space and assembled using robotic systems an humans in spacesuits?
This shuttle was lost in January 28, 1986 during liftoff during its 10th mission.
What is the Challenger?
Describe the exercise regimen of the ISS astronauts.
During space shuttle missions, list 3 things that were accomplished.
What are (1) people carried into orbit repeatedly (2) launch, recovery, and repair of satellites (3) cutting-edge research and scientific experimentation was done?
List the 5 agencies that in cooperation run the ISS.
What are NASA (USA), Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, JAXA (Japan), and Roscosmos (Russia)
Where are the USA and Russia?
What is Columbia?
This is when (tentatively) the ISS is planned to continue to orbit around Earth and house astrounauts.
What is 2030?
This is the name of the current at NASA; its goal is to eventually land back on the moon.
What is the Artemis program?
The space shuttle was officially called this.
What is the Space Transportation System (STS)? (That's why the missions were numbered STS-1, STS-2, etc.)
List 5 kinds of experimentation and research that astronauts conduct on the ISS.
What is research in human physiology, radiation, materials science, physics, technology?
Describe the orbit of the ISS.
What is LEO (low earth orbit) at an altitude of between 370-460 km. It is in freefall technicall and must periodically fire its thrusters to boost its orbit so it doesn't reenter the atmosphere.
The current expedition of the ISS is...
What is Expedition 74? Usually a crew of 7 lives and works together although sometimes there may be more or less. A maximum of 8 crafts can dock at the station at 1 time.
The ISS has an orbital inclination of 51.6, which means...
What is that is flies over 90% of the inhabited Earth? It moves at 5 miles/second and orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.
This is the name of the "system" that launched Artemis I and Artemis II into space.
What is the Space Launch System (SLS)?
The crew module of Artemis II is named this.
What is the Orion spacecraft, named "Integrity" by the crew?
This was the duration (length) of the Artemis II mission.
The Artemis II mission was significant because...
What is the mission had the first crewed flight into deep space (past low earth orbit) since 1972?
The goal for future Artemis missions...
What is to eventually establish a sustained (long-term) presence on the moon with a habitat, landers, and rovers?
When Artemis IV and Artemis V land on the moon in 2026, this will be the first time man has set foot on the moon since....
What is Apollo 17 in 1972?
Random AMAZING face:
This planet in our solar system would FLOAT in water.
(No, I'm not kidding!)
What is Saturn?