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NASA TV's This Week at NASA, …
* With skies overcast skies, …
01/22/2010
Description * With skies overcast skies, the next space shuttle crew set down their T-38s at the Kennedy Space Center, eager to begin their launch dress rehearsal, or Terminal Countdown Demonstration test. The crew will fly aboard space shuttle Endeavour bringing the Tranquility node and its cupola for installation on the International Space Station. The STS-130 mission is scheduled to liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, February 7, at 4:39 a.m. Eastern. * The scheduled launch of NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is drawing near. Its prelaunch briefing, conducted at NASA headquarters in Washington and the Kennedy Space Center, gave media a look at SDO's unprecedented mission to study the sun and its dynamic behavior. * JSC: The next International Space Station crew briefed reporters on their upcoming mission. NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson was joined by Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skyorsov and Mikhail Kornlenko to discuss their upcoming Expedition 23 mission. * Members of the STS-129 crew continued their whirlwind tour of NASA centers. Five members of the space shuttle Atlantis crew thanked employees at the Stennis Space Center for their part in a safe STS-129 mission to the International Space Station in November. * The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity this week celebrates six years of exploration and research on the surface of the red planet. * The most powerful camera aboard the NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public.
Date 01/22/2010
Sally Ride, First U.S. Woman …
Title Sally Ride, First U.S. Woman in Space
Full Description Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. Born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, she received a Bachelor in Physics and English in 1973 from Stanford University and, later, a Master in Physics in 1975 and a Doctorate in Physics in 1978, also from Stanford. NASA selected Dr. Ride as an astronaut candidate in January 1978. She completed her training in August 1979, and began her astronaut career as a mission specialist on STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on June 18, 1983. The mission spent 147 hours in space before landing on a lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California on June 24, 1983. Dr. Ride also served as a mission specialist on STS-41-G, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 5, 1984 and landed 197 hours later at Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 13, 1984. In June 1985, NASA assigned Dr. Ride to serve as mission specialist on STS-61-M. She discontinued mission training in January 1986 to serve as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, also known as the Rogers Commission. Upon completing the investigation she returned to NASA Headquarters as Special Assistant to the Administrator for Long Range and Strategic Planning, where she lead a team that wrote NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space:A Report to the Administrator in August 1987. Dr. Ride has also written a children's book, To Space and Back, describing her experiences in space, has received the Jefferson Award for Public Service, and has twice been awarded the National Spaceflight Medal. Her latest books include Voyager: An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System and The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space. She was also a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB), which investigated the February 1, 2003 loss of Space Shuttle Columbia. Dr. Ride is currently a physics professor and Director of the California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego.
Date 06/1984
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
First Class of Female Astron …
Title First Class of Female Astronauts
Full Description From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978, allowing them to enroll in a training program that they completed in August 1979. Shannon W. Lucid was born on January 14, 1943 in Shanghai, China but considers Bethany, Oklahoma to be her hometown. She spent many years at the University of Oklahoma, receiving a Bachelor in chemistry in 1963, a Master in biochemistry in 1970, and a Doctorate in biochemistry in 1973. Dr. Lucid flew on the STS-51G Discovery, STS-34 Atlantis, STS-43 Atlantis, and STS-58 Columbia shuttle missions, setting the record for female astronauts by logging 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. She also currently holds the United States single mission space flight endurance record for her 188 days on the Russian Space Station Mir. From February 2002 to September 2003, she served as chief scientist at NASA Headquarters before returning to JSC to help with the Return to Flight program after the STS-107 accident. Born November 8, 1947, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Margaret Rhea Seddon received a Doctorate of Medicine in 1973 from the University of Tennessee. She flew on space missions STS-51 Discovery, STS-40 Columbia, and STS-58 Columbia for a total of over 722 hours in space. Dr. Seddon retired from NASA in November 1997, taking on a position as the Assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville, Tennessee. Kathryn Sullivan was born October 3, 1951 in Patterson, New Jersey but considers Woodland Hills, California to be her hometown. She received a Bachelor in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1973 and a Doctorate in Geology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1978. She flew on space missions STS-41G, STS-31, and STS-45 and logged a total of 532 hours in space. Dr. Sullivan left NASA in August 1992 to assume the position of Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She later went on to serve as President and CEO of the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Judith Resnik was born April 5, 1949 in Akron, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland in 1977. Dr. Resnik left a job as a senior systems engineer in product development with Xerox Corporation at El Segundo, California to work for NASA in 1978. She died on January 28, 1986 on her second mission, during the launch of Challenger STS-51-L. Anna Fisher was born August 24, 1949 in New York City, New York hometown. She received a Doctorate in Medicine in 1976 and a Master of Science in Chemistry in 1987, both from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Fisher flew on STS-51A, the Space Shuttle Discovery's November 8, 1984, mission, and logged 192 hours in space, her second schedule mission was cancelled after the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L accident. She remains with NASA, where she has filled many positions over decades of service. Dr. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. Born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, she went on to receive a Bachelor in Physics and English in 1973 from Stanford University and, later, a Master in Physics in 1975 and a Doctorate in Physics in 1978, also from Stanford. She began her astronaut career as a mission specialist on STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on June 18, 1983, and later went on to fly on STS-41G. She withdrew from training for her third scheduled mission in order to serve on the investigative committee for the Space Shuttle Challenger accident and never returned to training, although she went on to work for headquarters and later to serve on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board before returning to the private sector as a physics professor.
Date 02/28/1979
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
MOCR activity during Day One …
Title MOCR activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub
Description Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub. Photos include Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, talking with Edgar L. harkelroad of NASA headquarters launch and landing systems group at the NASA-Headquarters console in Mission Control Center while awaiting final word on launch reschedule (39400), Johnson Space Center Director Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., far left, discusses launch delay with flight controllers on the first row of consoles in mission operations control room for STS-2 (39401), Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Adminstrator for the NASA, listens to audio feed from the Kennedy Space Center for the latest information on the status of STS-2. Also pictured are John B. MacLeod of the Operational Planning Office in the Space Shuttle Program Office and Arnold D. Aldrich, Manager of the Orbiter Avionics Systems Office for JSC (39402), Flight Director Neil D. Hutchinson is pictured at his console in Mission Control just prior to an Officia
Date Taken 1981-11-04
MOCR activity during Day One …
Title MOCR activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub
Description Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub. Photos include Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, talking with Edgar L. harkelroad of NASA headquarters launch and landing systems group at the NASA-Headquarters console in Mission Control Center while awaiting final word on launch reschedule (39400), Johnson Space Center Director Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., far left, discusses launch delay with flight controllers on the first row of consoles in mission operations control room for STS-2 (39401), Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Adminstrator for the NASA, listens to audio feed from the Kennedy Space Center for the latest information on the status of STS-2. Also pictured are John B. MacLeod of the Operational Planning Office in the Space Shuttle Program Office and Arnold D. Aldrich, Manager of the Orbiter Avionics Systems Office for JSC (39402), Flight Director Neil D. Hutchinson is pictured at his console in Mission Control just prior to an Officia
Date Taken 1981-11-04
MOCR activity during Day One …
Title MOCR activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub
Description Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub. Photos include Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, talking with Edgar L. harkelroad of NASA headquarters launch and landing systems group at the NASA-Headquarters console in Mission Control Center while awaiting final word on launch reschedule (39400), Johnson Space Center Director Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., far left, discusses launch delay with flight controllers on the first row of consoles in mission operations control room for STS-2 (39401), Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Adminstrator for the NASA, listens to audio feed from the Kennedy Space Center for the latest information on the status of STS-2. Also pictured are John B. MacLeod of the Operational Planning Office in the Space Shuttle Program Office and Arnold D. Aldrich, Manager of the Orbiter Avionics Systems Office for JSC (39402), Flight Director Neil D. Hutchinson is pictured at his console in Mission Control just prior to an Officia
Date Taken 1981-11-04
MOCR activity during Day One …
Title MOCR activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub
Description Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub. Photos include Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, talking with Edgar L. harkelroad of NASA headquarters launch and landing systems group at the NASA-Headquarters console in Mission Control Center while awaiting final word on launch reschedule (39400), Johnson Space Center Director Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., far left, discusses launch delay with flight controllers on the first row of consoles in mission operations control room for STS-2 (39401), Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Adminstrator for the NASA, listens to audio feed from the Kennedy Space Center for the latest information on the status of STS-2. Also pictured are John B. MacLeod of the Operational Planning Office in the Space Shuttle Program Office and Arnold D. Aldrich, Manager of the Orbiter Avionics Systems Office for JSC (39402), Flight Director Neil D. Hutchinson is pictured at his console in Mission Control just prior to an Officia
Date Taken 1981-11-04
MOCR activity during Day One …
Title MOCR activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub
Description Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub. Photos include Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, talking with Edgar L. harkelroad of NASA headquarters launch and landing systems group at the NASA-Headquarters console in Mission Control Center while awaiting final word on launch reschedule (39400), Johnson Space Center Director Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., far left, discusses launch delay with flight controllers on the first row of consoles in mission operations control room for STS-2 (39401), Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Adminstrator for the NASA, listens to audio feed from the Kennedy Space Center for the latest information on the status of STS-2. Also pictured are John B. MacLeod of the Operational Planning Office in the Space Shuttle Program Office and Arnold D. Aldrich, Manager of the Orbiter Avionics Systems Office for JSC (39402), Flight Director Neil D. Hutchinson is pictured at his console in Mission Control just prior to an Officia
Date Taken 1981-11-04
MOCR activity during Day One …
Title MOCR activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub
Description Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) activity during Day One of the STS-2 mission scrub. Photos include Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, STS-1 pilot, talking with Edgar L. harkelroad of NASA headquarters launch and landing systems group at the NASA-Headquarters console in Mission Control Center while awaiting final word on launch reschedule (39400), Johnson Space Center Director Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., far left, discusses launch delay with flight controllers on the first row of consoles in mission operations control room for STS-2 (39401), Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Adminstrator for the NASA, listens to audio feed from the Kennedy Space Center for the latest information on the status of STS-2. Also pictured are John B. MacLeod of the Operational Planning Office in the Space Shuttle Program Office and Arnold D. Aldrich, Manager of the Orbiter Avionics Systems Office for JSC (39402), Flight Director Neil D. Hutchinson is pictured at his console in Mission Control just prior to an Officia
Date Taken 1981-11-04
Vice President Bush visits E …
Title Vice President Bush visits ESA Astronauts at KSC for Spacelab dedication
Description View of Vice President George Bush (center) visiting Astronauts Owen Garriot (left) and Wubbo Ockels of the Netherlands inside the Spacelab after the dedication ceremony in the Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Checkout (O and C) building. The NASA Headquarters alternative photo number is NASA 82-HC-64.
Date Taken 1982-08-12
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