Chapter 30 Questions Flashcards
True/False: An international mission describes an endeavor that at some point involves contributions from more than one nation, but it doesn’t necessarily require an international human crew.
True
True/False: A good example of International cooperation in human crewed missions through reimbursables is ESA supplying a robotic arm for the Russians to use on their ISS module, and Russia providing other services to ESA on the ISS.
False
True/False: Mission planning and management are candidates for international cooperation at the mission, system, and/or subsystem level.
True
True/False: International crewed space missions help to share risk, provide redundancies, and spread trust, but concerted campaigns for public support are still required to protect long-term investments from governmental or budgetary uncertainties.
True
True/False: International treaties and U.N. Resolutions have contributed enough of a body of legal rules, guidelines and settled law that key issues such as resource ownership, intellectual property rights, partnerships and command structures, damage assignments, dispute arbitration and settlement, jurisdictional rights and responsibilities are completely codified and well-understood.
False
True/False: Often, international missions require a new management style that reflects each partner’s traditions, sensitivities, and attributes.
True
What are some of the steps in developing an international human space mission that normally do not occur in domestic and/or commercial missions?
a. Language constraints, Legal and policy issues
b. Language constraints, National security and export controls, Mission operations control and training issues, Pad safety and downrange constraints
c. Legal and policy issues, Mission operations control and training issues, Pad safety and downrange constraints
d. Language constraints, National security and export controls
d. Language constraints, National security and export controls
If the United States and the USSR (now the Russian Federation) could engage in a race to the Moon in the 1960s, and world GDP has increased since then, why is it currently assumed that international cooperation for future human space flight missions will be inevitable?
a. During the Cold War, scientific cooperation between the world’s two largest superpowers was considered too risky to upsetting the technological and military balance of power
b. Domestic non-space social expenditures in developed countries as a percentage of GDP have risen dramatically, resulting in smaller budget percentages available for space exploration
c. International interdependencies have emerged through the world wide use of the internet, making multi-national cooperation in global markets more commonplace, and space is now viewed as another global market with exploitable resources
d. Long-term human lunar and planetary surface exploration missions will require far greater investments and advance cooperation
e. Technological advancements worldwide have increased the number of countries that can offer significant resources to large space projects
f. Shared planetary security threats have changed perceptions of cooperation in space to more a matter of shared risk than of national pride
g. All of the above
g. All of the above
Complexities and challenges with international missions arise from technological and political differences, including:
a. Space funding policies and levels, Government budget lead times and processes, Cultural complexities in close quarters habitats from language and perspective, Metric vs. English (U.S.) measurement standards
b. Space funding policies and levels, Government budget lead times and processes, Different standards of comfort and recreation, Different approaches to human space flight safety, Cultural complexities in close quarters habitats from language and perspective, Metric vs. English (U.S.) measurement standards
c. Space funding policies and levels, Government budget lead times and processes, Different standards of comfort and recreation, Different approaches to human space flight safety, Metric vs. English (U.S.) measurement standards
d. Different standards of comfort and recreation, Different approaches to human space flight safety, Cultural complexities in close quarters habitats from language and perspective, Metric vs. English (U.S.) measurement standards
b. Space funding policies and levels, Government budget lead times and processes, Different standards of comfort and recreation, Different approaches to human space flight safety, Cultural complexities in close quarters habitats from language and perspective, Metric vs. English (U.S.) measurement standards
Regardless of the current geopolitical climate, national security is still a responsibility of each government that contributes to cooperative crewed missions, because:
a. Flight crews and support staff are close to other nations’ space technology that could have military uses
b. Remote sensing for civilian uses can have military applications
c. Dividing lines between military and civilian space activities are much less obvious in space
d. International space and ground crews must train very closely together and can extend trust too far
e. All of the above
e. All of the above
