Kennedy Space Center

A large microwave antenna transmits communications for the Kennedy Space Center in Rorida. Corbis-Bettmann)... 

Fig. 8.28 External view of the MIMOS II sensor head without contact plate assembly (left) MIMOS II sensor head mounted on the robotic arm (IDD) of the Mars Exploration Rover. The IDD also carries the a-Particle-X-ray Spectrometer APXS, also from Mainz, Germany, for elemental analysis, the Microscope Imager MI for high resolution microscopic pictures ( 30 pm per pixel), and the RAT for sample preparation (brushing grinding drilling (< 1 cm depth)). Picture taken at Kennedy-Space-Center KSC, Florida, USA...

MEMS-based hydrogen sensors have been used in NASA shuttle missions STS-95 and STS-96. Hydrogen sensors were also a part of an "Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring HEDS Technology Demonstration" series conducted at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. 

Fichtl, G. D., and McVehil, G. E. (1970). Longitudinal and lateral spectra of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer at the Kennedy Space Center. J. Appl. Meteorol. 9,51-63. 

NASA Biological Sciences Office, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899, USA... 

Figure 17.7 Tubers from cv Norland plants grown in nutrient film technique (NFT) for 105 days at NASA s Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA (source Wheeler et al., 1990). Nutrient solution was pumped continuously to the back end of the trays and flowed to a drain at the front for return to the reservoir. NFT proved more successful for producing good tuber yields and allowed easy harvesting.

Figure 17.11 Neil Yorio at NASA s Kennedy Space Center taking leaf porometer measurements with potatoes to monitor stomatal conductance and transpiration rates. When measurements were taken at 400 ppm CO2, a mask was worn to removed exhaled breath from the chamber to avoid elevating the CO2 concentration.

Wheeler, R. M., Mackowiak, C. L., Stutte, G. W., Yorio, N. C., Sager, J. C., Ruffe, L. M., Petersen, B. V., Berry, W. L., Goins, G. D., Prince, R. P, Hinkle, C. R., Knott, W. M. (2003). Crop production for advanced life support systems-Observations from the Kennedy Space Center Breadboard Project NTiSA Tech Mem, 211184. 

Richard Tarn Potato Research Centre, AAFC, P.O. Box 20280, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 4Z7 Raymond Wheeler NASA Biological Sciences Office Mail Code KT-B-1 Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 USA... 

The Vehicle Assembly Building at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is the largest building in the world, with a volume of 3,666,500 m3. Express this volume in scientific notation. 

Be sure to pack your cooler before heading off to visit the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral otherwise, you ll be stuck with 8 hot dogs and hamburgers. If you re traveling from Orlando, pick something up there. Otherwise you can shop locally at Sunseed Food Co-op (6615 N. Atlantic Ave., o 784.0930). Also out this... 

The Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA Dynamac Corp, Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899, USA Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA Email saripp utk.edu... 

Kenzakowski, D. C., and S. M. Dash. 2000. Study of three-stream laboratory jets with passive mixing enhancements for noise reduction. AIAA Paper No. 2000-0219. Kenzakowski, D. C., and S. M. Dash. 1998. Advances in jet aircraft mixer/nozzle and plume simulation. JANNAF 6th SPIRITS User Group Proceedings. NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL. 

The largest LH2 tank constructed so far is the NASA 3407 vacuum perlite-insulated spherical storage tank at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, used in the US space shuttle program. The outer sphere is made from carbon steel with an inside diameter of 21.34 m and the inner sphere is made from austenitic stainless steel with an inside diameter of 18.75 m the ullage is about 10 %. The tank has a boiloff rate of 0.03 % or approx. 800 1 per day [51]. For comparison purposes the LH2 storage tank within the External Tank (47 m height, 8.4 m diameter) of the US Space Shuttle has a volume of almost 1600 m. ... 

Pipeline transportation of liquid hydrogen is realized on a small scale and short range. Stainless steel is usually taken for the inner line with low heat conduction spacers as a support in the vacuum jacket. The Kennedy Space Center in Florida uses an LH2 and LOX pipeline of 500 m length with an irmer pipe diameter of 0.15 m. Flow rates achieved are up to 250 LH2 per minute and 100 m LOX per minute, respectively [12]. Transfer is realized by applying pressure, no pumps. Major concerns besides heat leakage is the mechanical stress imposed on the irmer line due to contraction / expansion, pressure oscillations upon cooldown, or two-phase flow. 

Fig. 2.7 On January 28, 1985, at 11 38 am Eastern Standard Time, Challenger space shuttle left Pad 39B at Kennedy space center in Florida for Mission 51-L, the tenth flight of Orbiter Challenger. Seventy three seconds later the space shuttle was com-...

Fig. 8.35 Launch of the Orbiter Endeavour as Space Shuttle Flight STS-77 on 19 May 1995 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

If you ever visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida you may have seen a surprising demonstration. A small block of the silica material that makes up the tiles used on the shuttle is heated to well above red heat. The demonstrator turns off the flame and almost immediately picks up the block with bare hands to demonstrate how fast the material can dissipate heat. Some of the silica that goes into this remarkable material is multiply deionized colloidal silica re-stabilized with ammonia. The material is aged in between deionizations to allow sodium to leave the particles and enter the water phase where they can be removed. The product is shown to be suitable for use when it can be heated to a designated temperature and avoid significant conversion to cristobalite. 

The work at the University of Florida is partially supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Contract number 00075094, monitored by Dr Chagaan Baatar the NSF under contract number ECCS 0901711, monitored by Dr Yogesh B. Gianchandani NASA Kennedy Space Center Grant NAG 10-316, monitored by Mr Daniel E. Fitch and by Superfund Basic Research Program Grant RO1ES015449. 

AFIGURE22.il Launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center. 

About 14 months after the Bhopal disaster, on January 28, 1986, the US space shuttle Challenger exploded and disintegrated 73 seconds after launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The entire crew perished six astronauts and Christa McAuliffe, the first Teacher in Space. 

Facts On January 28, 1986, at 11 38 a.m. EST, the US Space Shuttle Challenger took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Mission 51L. Seventy-three seconds after takeoff, a fire that had broken out on the right solid rocket booster led to an explosion of the adjacent external fuel tank. The shuttle system disintegrated and the orbiter plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean. All seven crew members (Figure 4.6) perished. 

Anyone who has visited the Kennedy Space Center and seen the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)—originally built to process the Saturn V and currently used to assemble the Space Shuttle and its external tanks and solid rocket boosters—and the crawler-transporter— used to move the final assembled vehicle and mobile launch platform from the VAB to the launch pad—has an appreciation for the massive infrastructure requirements of a major space project. The ISS program has benefited substantially from the existence of the Apollo-era... 

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