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For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director (NTD) performed this check via a voice communications link with other NASA personnel. The NTD was the leader of the shuttle test team responsible for directing and integrating all flight crew, orbiter, external tank/solid rocket booster and ...
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
The NASA ICON team unexpectedly lost contact with the spacecraft on 25 November 2022. A fail-safe system, designed to reset the spacecraft computer after 8 days with no receipt of commands from the ground, failed to restore communications after it elapsed on 5 December 2022. [21] On 24 July 2024, NASA formally declared that the mission had ...
Launched with LDPE-2, LINUSS-A1/A2, TETRA-1 and Alpine as part of the USSF-44 mission. USA-340: 2022-11-01 2022-144E Technology demonstration Falcon Heavy: Entered service, presumed active Launched with Shepherd Demonstration and LDPE-2 as part of the USSF-44 mission. It was ejected from LDPE-2. TETRA-1 and Alpine are possible matches for this ...
Business jet of the NASA Administrator: Active (1) 2003 - 2008 NA NASA one was a Gulfstream G-III with a seating capacity of 12 people. The jet is stored in an FAA hangar along with 3 other government planes. [32] NASA now shares a plane with FAA. Gulfstream X-54: Research, X-Planes, Proposed Armstrong Flight Research Center
[1] Executive Order 13287, "Preserve America", signed by President Bush on March 3, 2003, established a federal policy to provide leadership in preserving the nation's heritage by actively advancing the protection, enhancement, and contemporary use of historic properties owned by the federal government. The order encourages federal agencies to ...
The Mobile Launcher Platform-1 on top of a crawler-transporter. A mobile launcher platform (MLP), also known as mobile launch platform, is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle which is assembled (stacked) vertically in an integration facility (e.g. the Vehicle Assembly Building) and then transported by a crawler-transporter (CT) to a launch pad.
NASA has been running a series of tests on the Z-1. According to a NASA report there have been two parts of the testing: (1) characterize the suit performance to down selection of components for the planned Z-2 Space Suit and (2) "develop interfaces with the suitport and exploration vehicles through pressurized suit evaluations." [7]