Whatever became of that self-maneuvering space suit that was used on one or two space shutle missions ?
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The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) was envisioned to assist astronauts in working on commercial and military satellites and for use around the space station.\n\nNASA stopped using the Shuttle for commercial contracts and the military discontinued their use of the Shuttle program for work on military satellites leaving the MMU with only one Shuttle based use, the Hubble Space Telescope.  The MMU could not be used for this work, however, because the gas used to propel the MMU would coat the lenses of the HST and degrade its vision.\n\nAs for work on the space station, the whole MMU concept was considered too risky and NASA reverted to using tethered astronauts for all spacewalks.
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That makes no sense. It doesn't exist. Sorry, not applicable. Space shuttle year. What is that? Maybe try: http://www.nasa.gov
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Yup!  They used it in the movie E.T., and it flew!  I'm sure you can find it on Ebay or something.
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In the 60s bij de Apollo mission control Of NASA. In the 60s they also had a kinda Mars-Pathfinder.
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(m)\n\nLaunching NASA \n\n"An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes." With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the national Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA's birth was directly related to the pressures of national defense. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, a broad contest over the ideologies and allegiances of the nonaligned nations. During this period, space exploration emerged as a major area of contest and became known as the space race. \n\nDuring the late 1940s, the Department of Defense pursued research and rocketry and upper atmospheric sciences as a means of assuring American leadership in technology. A major step forward came when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a plan to orbit a scientific satellite as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) for the period, July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958, a cooperative effort to gather scientific data about the Earth. The Soviet Union quickly followed suit, announcing plans to orbit its own satellite. \n\nThe Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard was chosen on 9 September 1955 to support the IGY effort, largely because it did not interfere with high-priority ballistic missile development programs. It used the non-military Viking rocket as its basis while an Army proposal to use the Redstone ballistic missile as the launch vehicle waited in the wings. Project Vanguard enjoyed exceptional publicity throughout the second half of 1955, and all of 1956, but the technological demands upon the program were too great and the funding levels too small to ensure success. \n\nGo through the following link, it will very helpful to you\nhttp://www.policyalmanac.org/economic/archive/nasa_history.shtml
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Dr. Sally Kristen Ride\n\nshe went to the space in shuttle Challenger June 18, 1983. She rode Challenger to space again, a year later
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She died in space.\n\nThere was no safe way to return her to earth.\n\nHere are some details.....\n\nOn November 3, 1957, the U.S.S.R. stunned the world with a space sensation -- the launch of Sputnik 2 with a live dog on-board. \nAfter a successful launch, Sputnik 2 exhausted its electrical batteries after six days in orbit. With all systems dead, the spacecraft continued circling the Earth until April 14, 1958, when it reentered the atmosphere after 2,570 orbits. \n\nIt has been suggested she either died due to lack of oxygen or when the cabin over heated.
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I have this very object. My foolish neighbor calls it an air humidifier, like he knows anything, ( he thinks we landed on the moon, I know crazy)\n     You can borrow it, but you have to come at night. My house is the one covered in tin foil and cloaked in the star trek special edition invisibility shield, with extra force field protons.
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Check out this site.  It has all the details for you:\n\nhttp://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/wannabe.html
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http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/journals/space/kloeris/04-29-01.html\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215468/space_food.htm\n\nhttp://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/astronauts/living_eating.asp
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Going back to a capsule type system definately seems like a strange step.  \n\nBut as far as getting an effective system flying in a low budget enivronment, it is probably a good choice.\n\nI think seperating the cargo and crew flights is a good idea.\n\nI would like to see more alternative methods of getting man & material into space such as the high altitude drop then rocket burn of the Spaceship1, or the space elevator.
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I really don't know about the case you are referring to, but it remembered me a recent collision (April 1st, 06) between a Russian satellite and what they think was space debris. Looks as if this accidents will be every time more frequent as the number of satellites and debris increase. \n\nCheck the link to see the news:\nhttp://skymania.blogspot.com/2006/04/collision-knocks-out-satellite.html
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The orange suits are known as Advanced Crew Escape Suits (ACES) and are worn only during liftoff and reentry.  These suits are fully pressurized and include locking components that ensure that if the astronauts need to escape from the shuttle they will not loose any of the components and thus pressure from the suit.  The suits also contains a parachute harness and a survival pack. The orange color is to increase visibility of the astronauts so rescue crews would be able to find them in the event of a bailout from the shuttle.\n\nThe white suits are standard space suits and do not have any of the safety features of the ACES as they are only to be used in space, thus do not need to be equipped with a survival pack or a parachute.  The white color is also more conducive to a space environment as it reflect sunlightt thus helping to prevent excessive heating from sunligh on the suit.
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spark blew a panel off, they had too much CO2 (Carbon dioxide), and Fred Haise got sick.  Reentry is when the ship returns to earth.  Problem with that is that they weren't sure if the heat shield was damaged and they'd burn up.  Also, they weren't carrying any moon rocks to add extra weight, so they were coming in too shallow.  As for dates, launch on Apr. 11, 1970, splashed down in the ocean Apr 17, 1970.  Go to Wikipedia.com for lots more info.
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Apollo 13 was a space flight mission that went awray.  While in space, some faulty electronics sparked some O2, thus causing no oxygen and electricty to come to the service module, they slingshoted around the mooon and landed back to earth.  The 2nd catrophse in the Manned space program
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A 16-member NASA Genesis Mishap Investigation Board (MIB) was quickly formed, including experts on pyrotechnics, avionics, and other relevant specialties. The MIB started its work on September 10, 2004 when it arrived at Dugway Proving Ground. It determined that all scientific hardware meant to be curated by the Johnson Space center can be released and are not needed for the work of the board. Both JPL and Lockheed Martin have begun to prepare flight data and other records for the MIB.\n\nIt was announced on September 23, 2004 that the capsule, having had the science material extracted, would be moved to the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility near Denver, Colorado, for MIB use.\n\nA first possible root cause of the failed deployment of the parachutes was announced in an October 14 press release. Lockheed Martin had built the system with an acceleration sensor's internal mechanisms wrongly oriented, and design reviews had not caught the mistake. The intended design was to make an electrical contact inside the sensor at 3 g (29 m/s²), maintaining it through the maximum expected 30 g (290 m/s²), and breaking the contact again at 3 g to start the parachute release sequence. Instead, no contact was ever made.[3]\n\nThe same general parachute concept was also used on the Stardust comet sample return spacecraft, which landed successfully in 2006; that system was said not to have Genesis's flaw.\n\nShortly after the spacecraft crashed, it was pointed out that Colin Pillinger, part of the science team analysing the collected samples, was also the Principal Investigator for the ill-fated Beagle 2 mission to Mars. It had been suggested that the cause of Beagle 2's loss (which is as yet undetermined) might also have been due to a parachute failure. The determination of the cause of Genesis's parachute failure rules out any link between the two failures.\n\n\nThe chair of the NASA investigation board, Michael Ryschkewitsch noted that none of the stringent review procedures at NASA had picked up a mistake, saying, "It would be very easy to mix this up".
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If you're talking about the astronaut, I don't think he did. He's quoted here : http://wistv.com/global/Story.asp?s=4415552 about a fellow astronaut, and the article was written just three weeks ago, and I couldn't find any obituaries or anything.