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admission control and farby death
confirmed velocity 4,300 feet per second
hello I'm Lynn Bondurant from the
Challenger Center for space science
education all of us at the Challenger
cen are very pleased to learn that your
class will soon be flying a mission to
rendezvous with comet Halley you might
ask well what does it like to fly a
mission
well flying a mission is not like going
to an amusement park in writing a ride
but it's more like being on a motion
picture set where each one of you is a
star in this future space mission once
you arrive at the Challenger Learning
Center your group will be divided in
half half of you will begin your flight
in the space station the other half and
Mission Control you have a very
important flight ahead of you you're
going to rendezvous with comet Halley in
the year 2060 1 you are going to build
upon what was learned during Halley's
last approach near Earth in 1986 during
this mission you are to follow comet
Halley which is potato shaped and very
dark doing a portion of its orbit around
the Sun your mission is to gather
information which can be studied later
in the classroom to determine how space
scientists can use comets such as Hallie
to furnish the lunar research stations
and space stations in orbit around Earth
with resources available from comets
everyone who participates in a
simulation is very important to the
success of the mission as such each one
of you will be assigned to a team your
team will have certain things that you
must do that relate to the mission
members of each team will have
workstations in both Mission Control and
the space station during the mission you
will work in both locations in Mission
Control you will work at one of the
various councils team members and
Mission Control guide the space station
through various aspects of the flight
as mission controllers you will supply
the flight crew in the space station
with information in images needed to
complete their tasks at the console you
will also receive information to record
from the crew and the space station
sometimes you will be able to see live
images from the space station
the monitors at the front of Mission
Control reflect what is occurring in the
space station the status of the mission
and also show data are video images as
mission controllers you have a very
important role that involves
communications and interactions with the
crew and the space station your job is
to help them solve their problems it is
your responsibility to know which tests
the crew and the space station is doing
cash cards will help you do this every
workstation in the Space Station and all
of the consoles and Mission Control have
a set of task cards that relate to the
jobs that 13 must do during the
simulation each task card has the steps
required to complete a specific task
notice that the task card has a start in
encode you are to enter the start code
when you begin a task and the end code
when it is completed to do this you will
use the cue pad at your workstation a
cue pad is not difficult to use as an
example watch as the start code is
entered from one of the task cards make
sure you enter the correct code after
the start code is entered press the send
button once the start code is sent the
mission status board changes to let
Mission Control know what the data team
is doing watch the mission status board
change as the CIN button is pushed the
various tasks are carried out in the
space station
if you are a member of the biosphere
team you will work at this station from
here you can tell operate vehicles in
the greenhouse tell operations means
that you are able to operate something
from afar you do not need to be right
there to make it work the biosphere team
will also study leaves from some of the
plants in the greenhouse in the glovebox
the medical team studies the effects of
space travel on the crew your job is to
find out the effect of the zero-g
environment on the health of the crew G
stands for the word gravity you will do
tasks to evaluate the crews health if
you are assigned to work at the
isolation chamber you will use robots to
handle dangerous materials outside of
the space station those of you assigned
to the life support team will be
involved in checking out the various
systems that produce the artificial
environment that keeps the astronauts
alive
for example the life support station
monitors the oxygen and water necessary
for the daily needs of the crew the
navigation team will be busy locating
comet Halley and firing probes into the
nucleus of the comet as data team
members you will send messages and
supply data to the various teams the
probe team will assemble and launch a
probe that will fly through the area
around comet Halley to gather
information about the comet Capcom and
Mission Control and simcom in the space
station will be kept busy asking for
answers and providing input is necessary
to make the entire mission operate
smoothly good luck in your endeavors as
you rendezvous with comet Halley your
flight will involve such things as
teamwork problem-solving communication
skills skills that you will use all of
your life may your mission to rendezvous
with comet
Halim be a good one hopefully your
flight will excite you to explore a
future career that involves science or
mathematics but whatever your future
holds remember to always aim for the
stars
you