Human Space Flight

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Human Space Flight

• Trials and Tribulations

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Human Space Flight

• Challenges of Human Space Flight
• NASA
• Tragedy
• Future of Human Space Flight

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Human Space Flight Challenges

• Gravity

gt F force, G Gravitational Constant, m mass,
and r Distance
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Human Space Flight Challenges

• Human Habitation
• Air
• Food/Water
• Temperature
• Radiation

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Human Space Flight Challenges
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Human Space Flight NASA

• Founded in 1958
• Formed as a result of Sputnik Crisis
• Mercury
• Meant to answer the question Can humans survive
  in space?
• Gemini
• 2 man capsules with the intent of exploration of
  how humans can work in space

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Human Space Flight The Moon

• Apollo
• May 25, 1961 Speech By John F. Kennedy
• July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong set foot on the
  surface of the moon

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Human Space Flight The Moon
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Human Space Flight The Shuttle

• April 12, 1981 First space shuttle launch after
  a 6 year gap in launches at NASA

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Human Space Flight Tragedy

• January 27, 1967 fire in an Apollo capsule on the
  ground that took the lives of astronauts Roger B.
  Chaffee, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Edward H.
  White Jr. Jr.

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Human Space Flight Tragedy

• On January 28, 1986 a leak in the joints of one
  of two Solid Rocket Boosters attached to the
  Challenger orbiter caused the main liquid fuel
  tank to explode 73 seconds after launch, killing
  all 7 crew members

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Human Space Flight Tragedy

• February 1
• The Space Shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry
  into the earths atmosphere

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Human Space Flight Future

• Where do we go now?