Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Solid-Fuel Rocket, Automated Transfer Vehicle, Lunar Orbiter Program

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2090A/B
• Professor: Philip Stooke

Document Summary

Nasa does not choose its own goals - they are set by the. After apollo, the usa moved on to the space shuttle and space station. The soviet union began a series of space station flights culminating in its own large space station, "mir", and post-soviet russia joined the. During apollo, us proposals for future exploration included mars missions, lunar bases, and orbiting space stations. Except a space station test project called skylab. Skylab itself was an apollo/saturn upper stage rocket fitted out as a laboratory, with a telescope attached to it in a modified lunar module left over from apollo. During launch in 1973 it was damaged, losing a solar panel and meteorite shield. The first crew saved the mission by repairing the station. Two more crews also visited skylab, setting up a us long duration record in space (84 days) and performing medical and other experiments. Skylab eventually burned up over australia in 1979.