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Challenger Center
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mission Comander | Facilitate the mission by answering questions and making sure the crew stays on track |
| Data/Com (Communications) | send and receive all messages for the mission |
| Navigation (NAV) | Getting aircraft, ships or spacecraft from place to place. locate the position of any spacecraft or other objects in our solar system that are important to the mission |
| Probe | Building probe to send to various locations |
| Medical (MED) | Maintain the health of the crew |
| Remote (REM) | You are the official astronaut scientist for the mission. Use glove boxes to conduct scientific experiments and hazardous materials collected on space walks |
| Life Support (LS) | maintain Earth like environment on the Space Station. Make difficult decisions to make sure the crew could survive in a hostile environment |
| Isolation (ISO) | Monitoring hazardous situations on the space craft. Must be robotics master |
| Public Affairs officer (PAO) | Are the eyes and ears of the mission. Research on the beginning of space flight. Interview some crew members and writing a brief report on what happened during the mission |
| Space Shuttle Challenger | NASA's second orbiter in the space shuttle program. The Challenger launched and landed 9 times between 1983 and Jan.28th 1986 when it broke apart 73 seconds after launch. Resulting in the death of all 7 crew members, including school teacher Christa McAul |
| Challenger Learning Center | established after the Challenger accident, by the crew's family to honor the mission of space education |
| Comet | a small frozen mass of dust and gas that are moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, that may form a tail that streams away from the sun |
| Robotics | the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation and application of robots |
| Robot | a machine that functions in place of a living agent/person. Can be controlled y a computer |
| Effectors | arms, legs , hands and feet |
| Sensors | parts that act like senses that can detect objects or things like heat and light |
| Computer | the brain that contains instructions to the robot |
| Equipment | tool and mechanical features |
| Mission Contol | Located on Earth. The job of the Mission Control is to monitor the status of the astronauts on board the space station and to help all mission goals |
| Space station | a large artificial satellite used as a long-term base for manned operations in space |
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