Girard High School graduates Wayne Huning and Mike Hudson were among other Boeing employees who recently celebrated the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s acceptance of the Boeing-built United States On-Orbit Segment of the International Space Station.
A 1956 GHS graduate, Huning is a project engineer. Hudson, a 1975 graduate, is a safety engineer.
The USOS Acceptance Review Board completed and signed the government form to accept the United States On-Orbit Segment on march 6. With this Boeing officially transferred ownership of the U.S.-built hardware and more than two million lines of software code over to NASA.
The U.S. segment interfaces with all the ISS international partner elements. It encompasses the truss segments, including the four solar arrays and several pressurized modules. These modules consist of Unity and Harmony, connecting nodes 1 and 2; the Destiny laboratory module; the Quest airlock; pressurized mating adapters; the Zarya storage module, built in cooperation with the Russian Federal Space Agency; and more than two million lines of software code to operate all the components.
In addition, it contains thousands of components that make up the segment’s core systems for thermal control, environmental control, guidance and navigation, communication and tracking, electrical power distribution, command and control, structure and mechanisms and robotics.
It was 10 years in the making and now the vehicle stands ready to be fully utilized as a national laboratory for many years to come.
The International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history. Led by the United States, the International Space Station draws upon the scientific and technological resources of 16 nations, including Canada, Japan, Russia, 11 nations of the European Space Agency and Brazil.
More than four times as large as the Russian Mir space station, the completed International Space Station has a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. It measures 356 feet across and 290 feet long, with almost an acre of solar panels to provide electrical power to six state-of-the-art laboratories.
The station is in an orbit with an altitude of 250 statute miles with an inclination of 51.6 degrees. This orbit allows the station to be reached by the launch vehicles of all the international partners to provide a robust capability for the delivery of crews and supplies.
The orbit also provides excellent Earth observations with coverage of 85 percent of the globe and over flight of 95 percent of the population. By the end of this year, about 500,000 pounds of station components will have been built at factories around the world.
Anyone wishing to see where the International Space Station is currently may go to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html. Those wanting to see when the station flies over Girard should go to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_States®ion=Kansas&city=Girard.
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Girard High School graduates Wayne Huning and Mike Hudson were among other Boeing employees who recently celebrated the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s acceptance of the Boeing-built United States On-Orbit Segment of the International Space Station.
A 1956 GHS graduate, Huning is a project engineer. Hudson, a 1975 graduate, is a safety engineer.
The USOS Acceptance Review Board completed and signed the government form to accept the United States On-Orbit Segment on march 6. With this Boeing officially transferred ownership of the U.S.-built hardware and more than two million lines of software code over to NASA.
The U.S. segment interfaces with all the ISS international partner elements. It encompasses the truss segments, including the four solar arrays and several pressurized modules. These modules consist of Unity and Harmony, connecting nodes 1 and 2; the Destiny laboratory module; the Quest airlock; pressurized mating adapters; the Zarya storage module, built in cooperation with the Russian Federal Space Agency; and more than two million lines of software code to operate all the components.
In addition, it contains thousands of components that make up the segment’s core systems for thermal control, environmental control, guidance and navigation, communication and tracking, electrical power distribution, command and control, structure and mechanisms and robotics.
It was 10 years in the making and now the vehicle stands ready to be fully utilized as a national laboratory for many years to come.
The International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history. Led by the United States, the International Space Station draws upon the scientific and technological resources of 16 nations, including Canada, Japan, Russia, 11 nations of the European Space Agency and Brazil.
More than four times as large as the Russian Mir space station, the completed International Space Station has a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. It measures 356 feet across and 290 feet long, with almost an acre of solar panels to provide electrical power to six state-of-the-art laboratories.
The station is in an orbit with an altitude of 250 statute miles with an inclination of 51.6 degrees. This orbit allows the station to be reached by the launch vehicles of all the international partners to provide a robust capability for the delivery of crews and supplies.
The orbit also provides excellent Earth observations with coverage of 85 percent of the globe and over flight of 95 percent of the population. By the end of this year, about 500,000 pounds of station components will have been built at factories around the world.
Anyone wishing to see where the International Space Station is currently may go to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html. Those wanting to see when the station flies over Girard should go to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_States®ion=Kansas&city=Girard.
