Mission Directorates
The Mission Directorate that uses research findings to develop health and performance procedures.
What is the Human Research Program (HRP)?
The essential component used to support ground operations prior to the launch of a space mission.
What is Ground Support?
The condition in which people or objects appear to be weightless.
What is microgravity?
The maximum height an applicant can be to be selected for astronaut training.
What is 6 foot and 3 inches?
The organization that provides money to NASA for space exploration?
What is the Federal Government?
Mission Directorate that determines the NEEDS of the space mission.
What is the Science Mission Directorate (SMD)?
The essential component used by astronauts while in space.
What is a spacecraft?
The type of citizenship one must have to be selected as a NASA astronaut.
What is a U.S. citizenship?
The type of training astronauts receive that is most like the microgravity they will experience in space.
What is underwater training?
The study of the science of flight.
What is Aeronautics?
The Mission Directorate that is responsible for the Research and Development for NASA.
What is the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD)?
A vehicle that is used to propel the spacecraft into orbit.
What is a launch vehicle?
The number of applications NASA received in 2021.
What is 12,000 applications?
The training for NASA pilot that is safe and cost-effective alternatives to flying real spacecraft.
What is flight simulation?
Groups within NASA that study different aspects of space.
What are Mission Directorates?
The Mission Directorate that exists to maintain important space-based technological gains.
What is the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)?
The essential component used to communicate with the astronauts during the mission.
What is the Communications System?
The number of applicants NASA chose to start astronaut training in the year 2021.
What is the number 12?
The gravitational force that is put on a body during acceleration.
What is G-Force?
The study of the Sun
What is Helio physics?
The Mission Directorate that is MOST vital because it provides NASA with leadership.
What is the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD)?
A system that provides near-constant communication links between ground and satellites.
What is a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System?
The number of flight hours a pilot must have already completed prior to applying to be an astronaut.
What is 1,000?
The type of training that helps astronauts prepare for space travel by simulating of to 20-Gs.
What is Centrifuge Training?
The science that explains stars, planets, galaxies, and nebulae
What is Astro Physics?