Flight Operations
Courses of Study
Types of Controllers
College Majors
People in Flight Operations
100
Responsible for all shuttle-based activities related to the construction and operation of the Space Station, including logistics and transfer items into MPLM or Spacehub.
What is Assembly and Checkout
100
This course is used to study flight trajectory
What is telemetry
100
There job is to help the flight director make those decisions that have no safety-of-flight consequences, but may have cost or public perception consequences.
What is a Mission Operations Directorate
100
Is a branch of dynamics concerned with studying the motion of air, particularly dealing with the motion of objects.
What is Aerodynamics
100
Is a former NASA engineer, and was a flight controller during the Apollo program. He is widely credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission.
Who is John Aaron
200
Responsible for all spacesuit and spacewalking- related tasks, equipment and plans when the EVA takes place in the Space shuttle.
What is Extravehicular Activity
200
This study uses parabolas, elipses, circles, and other equation based figures and graphs.
What is algebra?
200
This person provides a mission commentary to supplement and explain air-to-ground transmissions and flight control operations to the news media and the public.
What is a Public Affairs Officer
200
Is the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of celestial objects.
What is Celestial Mechanics
200
Is a former NASA engineer and flight controller. He is best known for his role during the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Who is Steve Bales
300
Monitors all shuttle guidance.
What is Guidance and Navigation
300
This study deals with the study of angles.
What is geometry
300
This person is responsible for the Lunar Module guidance, navigation and control systems.
What is a Control Officer
300
Is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usibility of mass-produced products may be improved for marketability and production.
What is Industrial Design
300
Is a NASA engineer. Formerly a flight director, he became the manager of the Space Shuttle Launch Integration at Kennedy Space Center in November 2005.
Who is LeRoy E. Cain
400
Responsible for the station trajectory.
What is Trajectory Operations
400
This study deals with the study of the physical world.
What is physics
400
Person that is responsible for planning and supporting crew activities, checklists, procedures, and schedules.
What is a Flight Activities Officer
400
Is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
What is electrical engineering
400
Is a retired NASA flight controller, serving during the Apollo program. He was an EECOM controller he was responsible for the electrical and environmental systems onboard the Command Module.
Who is Seymour Liebergot
500
Manages the power generation, storage, and power distribution capabilities.
What is Power, Heating, Articulation, Lighting Control
500
This is the science that deals with the theory and methods of processing information in digital computers, the design of computer hardware and software, and the applications of computers.
What is Computer Science
500
This person is responsible for all data, voice and video communications systems, including monitoring the configuration of in-flight communications and instrumentation systems.
What is a Integrated Communications Officer
500
Is a branch of engineering behind the design, construction, and science of aircraft and spacecraft.
What is Aerospace Engineering
500
Was the program integration manager in the NASA Space Shuttle Program Office.
Who is Linda Ham
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