Challenger Flight STS-51L
How many crew members were on Flight STS-51L?
What is 7.
Which location are you that you receive vital information pretaining to your mission?
What is the Briefing Room.
Who controlled/flew the flight path of the rover?
Who is the NAV (Navigation) officer.
A comet has how many parts?
What is 3. (The nucleus, the coma, and the tail.)
What is NASA's #1 objective for all crew members?
What is health and safety.
Christa McAuliffe was not a traditional astronaut, she was a what ?
What was a teacher.
(Specifically a middle school science teacher.)
Which location 'controls the mission'?
What is Mission Control.
Who was in control of all verbal messages to and from Spacecraft and Mission Control?
Who is the COM (Communication) Officer.
A comet is the only space rock to have a what?
What is a tail.
What energy source from the sun is potentially dangerous if exsposed to too much of it?
What is solar radiation.
What symbol did Christa McAuliffe add to the mission patch?
What is an apple.
What location are you if you are the crew that goes into space?
What is the Spacecraft.
Who was in charge of assembling the remotely opperated vehicle?
Who is the ROV officer(s).
What is it called when a space rock like a comet breaks apart?
What is fracture or fragment.
Where does the Spacecraft crew go to conduct their research?
What is the International Space Station (ISS).
What was the general misson statement of the crew of Flight STS-51L?
What is "Science Education in Space".
(Will also accept Science Education and Space.)
What area do you pass through in order to become 'clean' prior to going up into space?
What is Decontamination.
Who checked rock samples for density and makeup?
Who is the GEO (Geology) officer.
What is a specialized name for comets that have a very long oribal path around the sun?
What is Long-Period comets.
What is a word that means to never give up even when things get difficult?
What is perserverance.
(Also accepted: Determination, Persistance)
What is a living memorial.
What location takes you into space?
What is the Transport.
Who checks for vital health statistics such as bone density, vitamins, pulse rate, temperature, etc.?
Who is the MED (Medical) officer.
What is the minimum length of time (in years) that a comet orbital path has to travel in order to be considred as 'long-period'?
What is 200 years.
What NASA program is Operation Comet associated with?
What is the DART Program.