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"To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes."
Dean Kamen, Founder
Mission
Our mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.
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As a graduate student, Christer Fuglesang worked at CERN (European Research Centre on Particle Physics) in Geneva on the proton-antiproton collision UA5 experiment. He became a Fellow of CERN in 1988, where he worked on the CPLEAR experiment, studying the Kaon-particles. After a year he became a Senior Fellow and head of the particle identification subdetector. Fuglesang obtained a position at the Manne Siegbahn Institute of Physics, Stockholm, in 1990 but remained stationed at CERN working towards the new LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project. Since 1980 Fuglesang has (when in Sweden) also taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
Fuglesang was selected to join the Astronaut Corps of the European Space Agency (ESA) based at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, in May 1992. He completed the Introductory and Basic Training Programmes at EAC, and four weeks of training at TsPK (Cosmonauts Training Centre) in Star City ,Russia, with a view to future ESA-Russian collaboration in the Mir Space Station. |
Fuglesang and fellow ESA astronaut, Thomas Reiter, of Germany, were selected for the Euromir 95 mission and started training at TsPK in August 1993 in preparation for their onboard engineer tasks, extra-vehicular activities ('spacewalks') and operations of the Soyuz transportation system. The Euromir 95 experiment training was organised and mainly carried out at the EAC.
In March 1995 he was selected as member of Crew 2 for the Euromir 95 mission, joining Genadi Manakov and Pavel Vinogradov. During the mission, which lasted 179 days from 3 September 1995 to 29 February 1996, Fuglesang was the prime Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC) at the Russian Mission Control Centre (TsUP) in Kaliningrad. He was the main contact with ESA Astronaut Thomas Reiter aboard Mir and was the coordinator between Mir and the Euromir 95 Payloads Operations Control Centre (SCOPE) located in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and the project management.
Between March and June 1996, he underwent specialised training in TsPK on Soyuz operations for de-docking, atmospheric re-entry and landing. Christer Fuglesang entered the Mission Specialist Class at NASA/Johnson Space Centre at Houston in August 1996. This training led to his certification as Mission Specialist in April 1998.
In May 1998, he resumed his training at the Cosmonauts Training Centre (TsPK) in Star City, near Moscow, in order to qualify as Soyuz Return Commander.
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The International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history. And when it is complete just after the turn of the century, the the station will represent a move of unprecedented scale off the home planet. Led by the United States, the International Space Station draws upon the scientific and technological resources of 16 nations: Canada, Japan, Russia, 11 nations of the European Space Agency and Brazil. The station will be 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 be have been built at factories around the world. |
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