Houston Space Shuttle example essay topic

Names of the crew members Commander Rick Hudson Pilot William Mccool Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla Mission Specialist Mike Anderson Mission Specialist David Brown Mission Specialist Laurel Clark Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon Space Shuttle Launch was on Jan 16 Jan 23 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A trio of new records were burned into the history books this week during shuttle Columbia's marathon research mission, officials said Thursday. Setting fires within an enclosed chamber inside the Space hab research module, astronauts were able to spark tiny balls of flame in a mix of extremely small amounts of hydrogen and air. "It's been a great experiment to date", said Paul Rodney, principal investigator of the Combustion Module experiment from the University of Southern California.

Results of the experiments could lead to more fuel efficient cars and less air pollution. Invisible to the naked eye, the combustion activity was captured by special cameras able to detect the faint amounts of light and heat coming from flames that ranged in size from five to 10 millimeters. Jan 19 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts set small fires inside their orbiting laboratory Sunday in a scientific study of soot.

The flames were contained in a chamber inside an even bigger chamber, and there was no danger of fire breaking out. Astronauts Kalpana Chawla, an American who was born in India, and Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space, used a hot wire igniter and jet burner to produce flames up to 2 inches long. They collected some of the soot for analysis back on Earth. Scientists want to better understand the production of soot, a pollutant that can lead to lung disease. They turned to space in order to eliminate the rising of hot air -- the so-called buoyancy effect -- and to slow the reactions inside flames for easier study Jan 26 SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts kept busy Sunday as they continued their 16-day mission of conducting scientific experiments. Astronaut Laurel Clark worked on a study of how bacteria and yeast develop in space and how reduced gravity affects their response to antibiotics.

The experiment is one of several from the European Space Agency. 'The clumps haven't changed a lot. But instead of being in one area of the chamber they " ve spread out to more of a serpentine pattern. Within (the) large clumps, there are visible islands of very white tissue,' ' Clark said, describing how the yeast cells she tested changed. Technical Time Line of Known Events Columbia's breakup on Saturday (all times CST): .

At 7: 52 a.m. CST, three-left main gear brake line temperature sensors showed an unusual rise in the left wheel well area... At 7: 53 a. m., a fourth left brake line strut actuator temperature sensor showed a 30-40 degree rise in temperature over a five-minute period, slightly higher than reported yesterday... At 7: 55 a. m., A fifth left brake line main gear sensor showed a sharp rise in temperature... At 7: 57 a. m., left wing temperature sensors failed "off-scale low", meaning no further data was being received on the ground... And at 7: 59 a. m., just before communications was lost with Columbia, there was evidence of drag on the aero surfaces of the left wing, causing two out of four yaw steering jets in that area of the Shuttle to fire for 1.5 seconds to counteract the increased drag.

K HOU-TV Channel 11 and the Houston Chronicle have established a Columbia Scholarship Fund to help pay for the education of the children of the STS-107 crew. Five of the seven astronauts killed Saturday had children. Checks made out to "Columbia Scholarship Fund" can be mailed to: P.O. Box 40333, Houston, TX 77240-0333.