SP-432 The Space Shuttle At
Work
[74-76] Index
- Advanced Landsat 61
- airlock 5, 53
- American Institute of Aeronautics &
Astronautics (AIAA) 69
- American Rocket Society 29
- Ames Research Center 71
- angle of attack 6, 7, 32
- Atlas-Centaur 21
- costs 22
- attitude-control thrusters 6
- automated beam builder 66, 67
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- Cabin module 51
- environmental-control equipment
53
- flight deck 43, 51, 52
- duty stations 51, 53
- mission 52
- payload 52
- payload handling 51
- rendezvous and docking 51
- living area 53, 55
- galley 53
- lower deck 53
- "vertical sleep station" 53
- washroom 53
- cargo bay 4, 48
- commander 4, 6, 51
- communication blackout 7, 62
- communications satellites 4, 11-12, 18
- Intelsat system 12
- Syncoms 11-12
- Telstar I 11
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- Day, LeRoy E. 22
- Delta 21
- costs 22
- Disher, John H. 68, 72
- Donlan, Charles J. 32
- Dynasoar 29
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- Earth resources monitoring 13-15, 26
- Earth resources survey satellites
13, 59
- Landsat 12, 15, 18
- Earth-to-orbit cargo carriers economics
22, 25
- Edwards Air Force Base 47
- ejection springs 4
- electronic mail 65, 66
- emergency landings 8, 55
- engines 45
- Enterprise 12, 30, 47
- European Space Agency 8, 18, 57
- European Space Research Organization (
ESRO) 30
- External Tank 1, 33, 35, 36, 38-39, 45, 46, 47, 55
- dimensions/specifications 38
- extravehicular activity ( EVA )
54
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- flight, aborted 54
- fly-by-wire control 52
- freight rates 21, 23
- Frosch, Robert A. 24
- fuel cells 47
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- geosynchronous orbit 4, 13, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68
- geosynchronous satellites 12, 63
- Syncoms 12
- weather satellites 13
- global information system 25
- Goddard Space Flight Center 48, 63
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- Head-End Steering 29
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- igloo 59
- Inertial Upper Stage 62
- Intelsat system 12
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory 48, 63
- Johnson Space Center 1, 48, 62
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- Kennedy Space Center 1, 8, 35, 39, 63
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- Landsat 12, 15, 18
- launch vehicles 21
- Atlas-Centaur 21
- Delta 21
- Saturn V 1
- Titan 21
- Lee, Chester M. 24
- Long Duration Exposure Facility
5, 8, 48
- lunar landscape 17
- lunar mining 69
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- Malkin, Myron S. 6
- maneuvering engines 3, 6, 46
- manipulator arm 4, 5, 48-49, 57
- manned maneuvering unit 54
- Marshall Space Flight Center 45
- mechanical arm 48-49
- "end effector" 49
- meteorological satellites 13, 15
- Mission Control Center 62
- mission specialist 4, 5, 51, 52
- monomethyl hydrazine 46, 47
- Mueller, George E. 31
- multibeam communications satellite
66
- Multimission Modular Spacecraft ( MMS )
60-61
- Multimission Satellite 49
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- NASA Deep Space Network 63
- National Research Council of Canada
49
- Nimbus 13
- nitrogen tetroxide 46
- nozzles 35
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- Office of Space Transportation Systems
57
- orbital velocity 3, 6
- Orbiter 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 27, 54, 59, 67
- airframe 41
- antennas 5, 67
- body flap 43
- cargo bay 4, 48
- controls 52
- crew module 41
- design 32
- dimensions/specifications 41-42
- electrical system 43
- elevon 43
- engines 45
- dimensions/specifications 45
- orbital maneuvering 3, 6, 38, 43, 46
- primary 46
- reaction control thrusters 43, 46
- vernier 47
- insulation 42
- internal power 47
- electricity 47
- fuel cells 47, 48
- hydraulic power 47
- landing gear 9, 43
- liftoff 2
- main sections 41
- nose gear 43
- propellants 8, 35, 45, 46
- radiators 43
- solar panels 5
- speed brakes 8, 43
- sunshields 5
- tanks 43
- tiles 42, 46
- windows 39
- Orbiter configurations 32
- fuel tanks 32
- heat shielding 32
- Orbiter main engines 35-36, 43, 45
- Orbiter Processing Facility 63
- Orbiting Astronomical Observations
22
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- Payloads 21-24
- standby 23
- payload manipulating arm 4, 5, 43, 48-49, 57
- Payload Operations Control Center
63
- payload specialist 4, 51, 60
- piggyback flight 23
- pilot 4, 5, 6, 51
- President's Science Advisory Committee
31
- propellant composition 35
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- remote sensing 26
- runway 7, 9
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- Saturn V 1
- Skylab 13, 17, 18
- solar cells 65, 66, 69
- solar electric propulsion 66
- solar power stations 66, 69, 71
- Solid Rocket Booster 1, 3, 35-37, 45
- liquid vs. solid fuel 33
- space colonies 70-71
- space communications 12
- space industrialization 69
- Spacelab 8, 48, 53, 57-60, 65
- laboratory module 58
- segments 58
- core 58
- experiment 58
- pallet 59, 60
- space mapping 17
- space power 69
- space rescue 23
- space structures 26
- space telescope 4, 5
- space tourism 70
- Space Transportation System 18, 21, 23, 24, 62
- Spinning Solid Upper Stage 61
- Stanford University 71
- Syncoms 11-12
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- teleoperator 67
- Telstar I 11
- Titan 21
- Tracking and Data Relay Satellites
62, 63
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- upper stages 4, 61
- Inertial Upper Stage 62
- Spinning Solid Upper Stage 6
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- U.S. Air Force 62
- utilities module 65
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- Vandenberg Air Force Base 35, 39, 63
- Vehicle Assembly Building 8, 63
- von Braun, Wernher 29
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- weather observation weather satellites
12-13
- wrist telephone 65, 66
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- X-15 30
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- Yardley, John F. 57
