Solaria 2008
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Meet Our Mission Team
| Author: | Cam | |||
| Posted: | 2/25/2008; 2:15:37 PM | |||
| Topic: | Meet Our Mission Team | |||
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Astronauts
| Shuttle Commander | Kasey |
| Shuttle Pilot | Chase |
| Mission Specialist | Linsey |
| Mission Specialist | Daria |
| Payload Specialist | Andrew |
| Medical Officer | Jared |
Duties and Responsibilities
Astronauts are responsible for the execution of space shuttle missions, their rules and control directives, assessing problems and implementing deviations from flight plan, procedures or personnel assignments in the interest of safety or mission accomplishment.
Pilot astronauts serve as both space shuttle commanders and pilots. During flight, the commander has onboard responsibility for the vehicle, crew, mission success, and safety of flight. The pilot assists the commander in controlling and operating the vehicle and may assist in the deployment and retrieval of satellites using the remote manipulator system (RMS), referred to as the robot arm or mechanical arm.
Mission specialist astronauts work with the commander and the pilot and have overall responsibility for coordinating shuttle operations in the following areas: Shuttle systems, crew activity planning, consumables usage, and experiment/payload operations. Mission specialists are trained in the details of the Orbiter onboard systems, as well as the operational characteristics, mission requirements/objectives, and supporting equipment/systems for each of the experiments conducted on their assigned missions. Mission specialists perform extravehicular activities (EVAs), or space walks and operate the remote manipulator system.
The Payload Specialist is the person other than a NASA astronaut who has specialized on-board duties and is a professional in the physical or life sciences, or is a technician skilled in operating unique equipment.
The Medical Officer takes blood pressure and pulse reading before and after liftoff and during exercise and at rest; times reactions for certain activities; gives basic first aid and conducts medical experiments
Mission Control Team
Communications Team
| Communications Officer | Jorey |
| Communications Officer | Trace |
The Communications Team relays all voice communications from the various teams to the student astronauts. They can send written data to the astronauts via the discussion pages. CAPCOM does much of the talking during the launch and landing scripts. It is also their responsibility to closely monitor the countdown. CAPCOM relays all radio information from various teams to astronauts from launch to landing and instructs data team to send messages to astronauts. They are to work closely and support the Flight Team.
Medical Specialist
| Medical Specialist | Andrew |
The Medical Specialist asks the Medical Officer on board the space shuttle simulator to take blood pressure, heart rate, pulse, and respiration readings from the astronauts several times throughout the simulation. This is done before and after exercise. These data are compared and analyzed for significant differences. The Medical Team is expected to graph the results and compose a written conclusion based on the results to be posted on our website.
Navigation Team
| Flight Dynamics Officer | Amber |
| Meteorologist | Darian |
Flight Dynamics Officer
The Flight Dynamics Officer communicates with the astronauts during launch and landing; Mission Elapsed Time (MET) every half hour and relays this information to the Public Affairs Team; plot shuttle movement on a world map; research for items of interest to astronauts concerning countries they are currently flying over and relay this information to the Communications Team.
Meteorologist
The Meteorologist plays the role of the weather plane and reports current weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center on Merrit Island, Florida, prior to launch; reports current weather conditions at Edwards Air Force Base in California and White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, for landing; records temperature, humidity, wind directions and speed, and any special weather conditions (e.g., thunderstorms, tornados, snow, etc.) and relays this weather information to Public Affairs Team every hour.
Public Affairs
| Chief Correspondent | Dion |
| Science Correspondent | Ryley |
| Medical Correspondent | Daniel |
| Astronaut Educators | Mayra |
The Public Affairs Team scurries about, picking up information from all teams to post on a large bulletin board. It is the responsibility of the Public Affairs Team to post mission updates to our web site. The Public Affairs team can write articles describing the mission. The Public Affairs Team is also responsible for "advertising" the mission throughout the school and local community by creating posters, leaflets, Press Releases for the local media, and so on.
Chief Correspondent
The Chief Correspondent coordinates the handling of information sent by the Medical, Lab, Navigation, and Communication Teams; posts mission updates on the school bulletin board; prepares a summary for the school newspaper; conducts preflight and post flight press conferences; and composes Press Releases for local media
Science Correspondent
The Science Correspondent composes news summaries of experiments conducted by the Medical Team; post summary of lab experiments on our web site.
Medical Correspondent
The Medical Correspondent composes news summaries of experiments conducted by the Medical Team; post summaries of medical tests on our web site.
Astronaut Educator
The Astronaut Educator handles all incoming and outgoing emails for the shuttle crew.
Laboratory Team
| Science Officer | Charley |
| Science Officer | Kelsey |
| Science Officer | Renee |
The Lab Team collects data from the Payload Specialists inside the simulator who are performing the experiments. They create a series of experiments for the astronauts to perform. The Lab Team is expected to demonstrate the results (through graphs, etc.) and compose a written conclusion based on the results. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD MUST BE USED.
Mission Activities
- Mission Updates
- Astronaut Journals
- Experiments
- Medical Information
- Weather Reports
- Flight Dynamics
- Space Debates
Discussion
Membership