Collaboration

International space station (ISS) is global collaboration in space engineering and technology and the largest specific cooperative program in history. Canada, Japan Russia and United States and 11 European Nations represent the core partnership at the heart of the operation. Involvement and interest comes from other countries of the world as well. ISS was first launched in 1998 and has been an operation ever since. It represents the first permanent human presence in space.

Powered by an array of solar photovoltaic cells spread like wings on a structure above the vessel korma is made up of series of cylindrical cables of work and habitation. Additional models are launched and connected with each new mission.

Not only do the men and women women living in the space station manage many different ongoing experiments, but they are themselves experimental subjects as they learn how to conduct the life and work in weightless and governmental of an orbiting spacecraft.

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Spaceflight Tragedies

Considering all the potential dangers, and space flight has been a remarkably safe undertaking. Those who have died in space missions (4.1 percent of American astrounauts, 0.9 of Russian Cosmonauts) have become heroes. Although it occurred during a training procedure, the 1967 loss of three member Apollo 1 crew had a great impact in the United States.

No one who witnessed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1968, will forget the horror of the explosion that occurred 73 seconds after lift off, killing all seven crew members including New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe. And on February 1, 2003, the entire crew of the space shuttle Columbia perished over the southwestern United States.

Phoenix Lands On Mars

“Phoenix is now on the surface of Mars, much to the joy of everyone here is mission control,”robot NASA blogger Brent Shakti on May 25th, 2008. “As icing on the cake,” he said, ” we’ve landed nearly perfectly level.”

After nearly 10 months of travel comedy the exploratory spacecraft landed on the planets north pole for my destination determined by NASA hours overall strategy to “follow the water” on Mars. The mission will allow scientist to study materials from regions of higher as content on the planet’s surface.

To further objective are to study the history of water in the martian Arctic plane and to research for evidence of a habitable zone. Phoenix will also a Dennis h long term goals; determine whether any form of life has a rise in on Mars, characterizing Mars’s climate and geology and preparing for human exploration.

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