Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Buran (Spacecraft), Soyuz 11, Space Station
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That"s why congress and president sometimes have conflict. Shuttle: specific vehicle go up and down relatively, not to expensive, go to orbit. Soviet union joined the us to create the international space station. Start from j. f. kennedy, mission to go to the moon. Skylab: little space station, made of piece of piece of apollo. Send apollo from earth orbit to the moon. A lot of tests made in the skylab. Skylab eventually use 3 times, in 1979, burns up in the atmosphere. 2 fatal accident w soyuz, spacescarf did not behave properly, kill a person when return to earth. Soyuz 11: 3 astronauts, when they come back, the spacescarf lost its atmosphere, they died. Longest crew stages: 438 days -> live in space long enough to go to mars. Russia builds a version of soyuz, to carry cargo named progress, a cargo version of.