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 |