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Out-of-This-World: Buehler Science and Space Center's Mission to Study Comet Halley

Join Buehler Science and Space Center for an immersive experience as you embark on a mission to continue the study of Comet Halley. In this interactive adventure, you'll take on the role of scientists and engineers, working in teams to solve space travel dilemmas just like real astronauts. Explore the importance of comet study and rendezvous with Comet Halley to collect new data and launch a probe into its tail. Will you succeed in furthering our understanding of the universe? Find out at Buehler Science and Space Center!

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Out-of-This-World: Buehler Science and Space Center's Mission to Study Comet Halley

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  1. Welcome to an OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD experience

  2. Buehler Science and Space Center Space Shuttle Challenger • Planned to study Comet Halley in January 1986 • Explosion of this spacecraft during launch • 73 seconds into flight due to a leak in one of the Solid Rocket Boosters which ignited the main liquid fuel tank • 7 astronauts died

  3. Buehler Science and Space Center Crew Members • Represented a variety of race, gender, background and religion • Included a Navy officer and a teacher • The crew of the shuttle mission was: • Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, and Sharon Christa McAuliffe

  4. Buehler Science and Space Center The Space Center • Originally funded by the families of the Challenger Crew Members • Visitors role-play a flight scenario • You are transformed into scientists and engineers who work in teams to problem solve dilemmas of space travel • You are working like astronauts do on REAL MISSIONS

  5. Buehler Science and Space Center Your Mission • Continue the mission of the Challenger Crew by resuming the study of Comet Halley • The year: 2061 • Comet Halley orbits the sun every 76 years • As it passes near the planets Earth and Mars we will study the comet from an Earth-orbiting Space Station

  6. Buehler Science and Space Center The Importance of Comet Study • Learn more about the beginning or our universe • Comet’s orbital mechanics may help us learn more about principles of gravity • Learn more about the Sun by studying its effects on comets

  7. Buehler Science and Space Center Rendezvous wtih Comet Halley • Trip begins with transport of astronaut crew to Space Station • Power up engines that send Space Station into long, elliptical orbit around Earth • Half-way between the orbits of Earth and Mars we anticipate locating Comet Halley

  8. Buehler Science and Space Center Rendezvous wtih Comet Halley • While searching for Comet Halley, the crew will construct a space probe that can be launched through the gaseous tails of the comet • Be able to take pictures of the comet and collect materials for further analysis

  9. Buehler Science and Space Center Rendezvous wtih Comet Halley • Half-way through mission: crew transfer • Students in Mission Control (on left) will get on board the Space Station • Students in the Space Station will go into Mission Control

  10. Buehler Science and Space Center Rendezvous wtih Comet Halley • Hopefully achieve closest encounter with Comet Halley • Send probe through the tails of the comet • Goal: • To rendezvous with the comet • Launch the probe into its tail • Collect new data from the probe’s instruments

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