Asen 3036 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Countries with space program - USA - NASA Russia - FKA China - CNSA Japan - JAXA Canada - CSA European - ESA Countries with human spaceflight programs- have the ability to launch humans into space - USA Russia China NASA strategic goal 2 - Extend human presence deeper into space and to the moon for sustainable long-term exploration and utilization Current space exploration plan - Return of humans to the moon for long-term exploration and utilization Fathers of modern rocketry - Kons...

First Man in Space - Yuri Gagarin First American in Space - Alan Shepard First American in Orbit - John Glenn First Female in Space - Valentina Tereshkova Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - Father of Modern Rocketry, came up w/ Rocket Equation Robert Goddard - Father of Modern Practical Rocketry, Launched First Liquid Fuel Rocket in 1926 Hermann Oberth - Teacher of Von Braun, Pioneered Liquid Fuel Rockets American Space Programs - Mercury Gemini Apollo Shuttle Mercury Rockets - Little Joe - Sub...

Solar Arrays - used to generate electrical power Radiators - used on a human spacecraft to reject heat into space Orion - Name of a human space capsule being developed in the US Reaction Control System - Typically used on space capsules and space shuttle for attitude control Control moment gyroscopes - Used on ISS as the primary means of attitude control Progress - Provides Cargo resupply to ISS Soyuz - Provides crew transport to and from the ISS Canada - Country that provided the main ro...

Who was the first human to orbit the Earth? - Answer-Yuri Gagarin List three specific spacecraft sub-systems that are required only on human spacecraft - Answer-CO2 Removal System, Water Recovery System, Pressure Monitoring System Other than "Fear, Greed, Curiousity and because it is there", list two reasons for humans to go to space - Answer-Scientific Advancement, National Image/Bragging Rights Other than the US and Russia, name two partner countries that are participating in the ISS pr...

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