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News News: NASA's Earliest Space Launch!

 

Two astronauts from the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour began a series of repairs on the International Space Station Tuesday. The space walk is the first of four that the astronauts have planned for the current mission. VOA's Catherine Cannon has this report from Washington.

 
TS-126 spacewalker Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper rides the International Space Station's Canadarm2 to space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay, 18 Nov 2008
TS-126 space walker Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper rides the International Space Station's Canadarm2 to space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay, 18 Nov 2008
The first mission for Endeavour's crew began as astronauts Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen left the station for a more than six-hour walk in space. The astronauts' main task for all four space walks is to repair and lubricate massive joints that turn the station's solar panels toward the sun. The solar panels must face the sun in order to produce the maximum amount of electricity for the station.  

During the first space walk, Stefanyshyn-Piper and Bowen cleaned and lubricated the starboard solar alpha rotary joint. 

Tuesday's mission included the transfer of a nitrogen tank assembly from a storage platform on the space station to the shuttle Endeavour so it can be brought back to Earth. NASA technicians described the work as the astronauts carried out the mission.

"Steve Bowen as he moves hand-and-hand back to the cargo carrier where he will help Stefanyshyn-Piper install that for return home to Earth," a NASA official explained.

Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who will participate in the next space walk, is this walk's choreographer or intravehicular officer. Mission specialist Don Pettit is in charge operating the Canadarm2, a robotic arm that helps the space walkers move materials.

To prepare for conditions outside the space station, Stefanyshyn-Piper and Bowen spent the night in lower air pressure to remove nitrogen from their systems.

Stefanyshyn-Piper will also participate in the crew's second space walk. The astronauts will continue to clean and repair the joints on the space station in two days.  


 

 

                        What has NASA launched so far?

names of probes or shuttles                              interesting facts                                        astronauts on the shuttle or probe

international space station (ISS) do experiments in space and get samples a few people do live in the ISS (freaquently work in pairs)
challenger put a challenger probe around the earth 7 astrounauats were on the challenger on january 28 1986 the challenger blew up killing the 7 astronouts.
apollo 2 same as apollo one diffrent engines put water into atmosphere the crew was unmanned
apollo 3 blew up because oxygen breathers would not get enough air to the astrounauts gus ivan grissom, edward white,roger chaffee
apollo 4 first saturn v launch the crew was unmanned
apollo 13 lunar landing mission the 3 james lovell,  jack swigert, fred haise
apoll 7 live tv that showed on earth of the mission the first manned mission

these are only a few of the shuttles or probes launched so far.

 

what is nasa?

 

NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
NASA's goal is simple to answer all unanswered questions and to help space exploration in the future.  Just think someday you could live on the moon.
To do that, thousands of people have been working around the world -- and off of it -- for almost 50 years, trying to answer some basic questions. What's out there in space? How do we get there? What will we find? What can we learn there, or learn just by trying to get there, that will make life better here on Earth?

 
  • Aeronautics: pioneers and proves new flight technologies that improve our ability to explore and which have practical applications on Earth.
     
  • Exploration Systems: creates new capabilities and spacecraft for affordable, sustainable human and robotic exploration.
     
  • Science: explores the Earth, moon, Mars and beyond; charts the best route of discovery; and reaps the benefits of Earth and space exploration for society.
     
  • Space Operations: provides critical enabling technologies for much of the rest of NASA through the space shuttle, the International Space Station and flight support.
     
 


October 1, was the 47th anniversry of NASA.