extravehicular activity ( eva ) is a mission performed outside the space station.
extravehicular activity ( eva ) is a mission performed outside the space station.
what is a mission performed outside the space station?
extravehicular activity ( eva )
the first serious theoretical work published on space travel by means of rocket power was by konstantin tsiolkovsky in 1903. besides being the father of astronautics he conceived such ideas as the space elevator (inspired by the eiffel tower), a rotating space station that created artificial gravity along the outer circumference, airlocks, space suits for extra-vehicular activity (eva), closed ecosystems to provide food and oxygen, and solar power in space. tsiolkovsky believed human occupation of space was the inevitable path for our species. in 1952 wernher von braun published his own inhabited space station concept in a series of magazine articles. his design was an upgrade of earlier concepts, but he took the unique step in going directly to the public with it. the spinning space station would have three decks and was to function as a navigational aid, meteorological station, earth observatory, military platform, and way point for further exploration missions to outer space. it is said that the space station depicted in "" traces its design heritage to von braun's work. wernher von braun went on to devise mission schemes to the moon and mars, each time publishing his grand plans in collier's weekly.
space architecture
he became lead astronaut at the shuttle avionics integration laboratory (sail); lead of the first emergency egress team; and lead spacecraft communicator (capcom) in the mission control center for seven missions (sts-27, sts-29, sts-30, sts-28, sts-34, sts-33, and sts-32 [note that shuttle missions are not ordered chronologically]). following his first flight, he served as the deputy chief of the flight crew operations space station support office, as well as the lead astronaut for space station safety. he was also a member of the team evaluating the hardware and procedures for the proposed mission to dock with the russian space station mir. following sts-51, culbertson was chief of the astronaut office mission support branch; then chief of the johnson space center russian projects office. in 1994, culbertson was named deputy program manager, phase 1 shuttle-mir, and in 1995 became manager of the shuttle-mir program. he was responsible for a multi-national team which executed nine shuttle docking missions to the russian space station mir, with seven astronauts spending 30 months cumulatively on board the mir station, plus all the associated science and docking hardware to ensure the success of the joint program, a precursor to the building of the joint international space station. just prior to his current flight assignment, culbertson spent one year as deputy program manager for operations of the international space station program.
frank l. culbertson jr.