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Mission Comander   Facilitate the mission by answering questions and making sure the crew stays on track  
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Data/Com (Communications)   send and receive all messages for the mission  
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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  
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Probe   Building probe to send to various locations  
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Medical (MED)   Maintain the health of the crew  
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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  
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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  
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Isolation (ISO)   Monitoring hazardous situations on the space craft. Must be robotics master  
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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  
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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  
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Challenger Learning Center   established after the Challenger accident, by the crew's family to honor the mission of space education  
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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  
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Robotics   the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation and application of robots  
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Robot   a machine that functions in place of a living agent/person. Can be controlled y a computer  
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Effectors   arms, legs , hands and feet  
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Sensors   parts that act like senses that can detect objects or things like heat and light  
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Computer   the brain that contains instructions to the robot  
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Equipment   tool and mechanical features  
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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  
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Space station   a large artificial satellite used as a long-term base for manned operations in space  
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