... Earth. At the time, and unfortunately for Romanenko, the Soviets had no dental contingency protocol. During the US Mercury programme, flights were so short that there was no need for an inflight dental emergency protocol, and prevention...
... to one ninth of the original. This can also work in our favour if, for example, a sail is deployed near Mercury, which is at 0.39 AU and will give you 2.5 times the thrust available at Earth. Like a sailboat, a space sail-craft...
... primary mission target. NASA missions that have used this slingshot effect include Galileo (Jupiter), MESSENGER (Mercury), Cassini (Saturn), and Parker Solar Probe (the Sun). Now, imagine that every time a mission executes...
... tracking stations throughout the country that played a signifi cant role in major US space programmes such as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Continued maintenance of these stations has contributed to the evolution of Australia’s role in international...
... Venus, as well as the Apollo programme, before being closed in 1972. A spaceflight tracking station used for the Mercury, Gemini programmes and early Apollo Saturn rocket tests was also established on the Range, operating from...
... and those at risk from failure. At first there was a professional class of ‘risk takers’ and it is no accident that Mercury astronauts were chosen from military test pilots. By the time of the Space Shuttle, astronaut safety was...