Published: 8 December 2013 at. 2:17 p.m. – Updated: 8 December 2013 at. 2:29 p.m.
Technology Magazine wrote Friday about Voice SUNDLISÆTER, who qualified for a trip into space after a jury consisting of, among others, Buzz Aldrin had selected 23 winners from among 107 cadets on Kennendy Space Center. These were again selected from more than a million participants.
Tale is a graduate in engineering cybernetics, navigation and vessel management at the university.
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she has her own words written about their stay at Kennedy Space Center.
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Lockheed Martin Orion
During the tour of the Kennedy Space Center, we went out to the Launchpad A, where among other things, all space shuttle and Apollo moon landing missions (besides Apollo 10) was launched.
Saturn-5 inside the visitors center, KSC. Huge rocket. Photo: Voice SUNDLISÆTER
We were inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), which was originally built for the vertical composition of the giant Saturn 5 rocket.
All manned vessels from 1968-2011 has been vertically assembled in this building, with its 163 meters height and 3,664,883 cubic meters is one of the largest buildings in terms of volume.
Two of the cranes in the roof can lift as much as 325 tons.
Inside the VAB was also an experimental model of Lockheed Martin’s Orion space capsule one scheduled to carry astronauts to the moon, asteroids and Mars.
After this trip was the g-training and testing in the centrifuge, supper, and right field bed to get some sleep. The next day, Wednesday 4 December conducted all cadets a cross-country, where we measured the time.
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G-forces
Thursday it was up the field bed at four o’clock at night.
First we should rank first pilot for achievement during a flight with a Marchetti SF260 Aerobatics kamptreningsfly.
This aircraft was built in 1966 and flown by 27 air forces, including NATO air forces. It is a small single-engine aircraft, measuring 8.35 meters in wingspan, is 7.1 meters long, 2.4 meters tall, weighs about 775 kg and is controlled with one joystick and two pedals.
Marchetti can draw a maximum of six positive and three negative g. During this test we did formation flying, weightlessness with parabelflyvning, tight g-turns, rolls and the famous Immalman maneuver.
Maximum strain was a 20 second 4.4 g maneuver, which went smoothly although we had not g-suit us. The trick is to breathe in very short breath while tightening it one has the muscle to prevent blood drawn quickly from the head and down to the legs.
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NTNU advantage
fighter training to all cadets execute a written logic and skills test with tasks in areas such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, electronics and aerospace history.
It was a great advantage to have a background in science and engineering program at NTNU, and it was just right luck (and some tactical) that I had read a pretty detailed book about Kennedy Space race on the flight over the Atlantic before the training started. Therefore, this test also went well.
Formation Flight. In the second plane sits a candidate, Omar Samra, who was Egypt’s first to climb Mount Everest. He was also one of the 23 who won. Photo: Voice SUNDLISÆTER
last challenge of the program was to build a missile at ninety minutes, miscellaneous junk and cardboard parts we were given.
This was a lagoppgave I felt I did not do particularly well in, because I thought we should build two missiles in case one failed.
teams then decided to use the second rocket, and I was therefore to build a rocket that was never used, which is of course a bit disappointing.
Nevertheless, four of the other participants built an experimental rocket, a solution reminiscent of a New Year’s rocket, which took off and went straight to heaven.
In this thesis, we got points based on team effort as a whole. The referee was Andrew Nelson, operations manager at XCOR Aerospace, which is developing rocket plane we all struggled to get win a trip with.
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Documentary
Throughout occupational testing week there were cameras around at all hours, and interviews of the candidates along the way., a film crew from New York was hired to create a kind of reality-documentary about life in training camp.
How and when this will come on tv is uncertain, but the estimate is sometime in February / March. The manufacturer had previously made several documentaries including Miley Cyrus and Sting, and had many great stories to tell.
One of the best thing about the whole stay in general was to take all these people from all over the world, both participants and television crew. It’s amazing how quickly you become familiar with and welded together with other people when stowed together in a camp and have to go through the same hardships.
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1 of 37
Thursday night was the closing ceremony. All 107 cadets were transported from the camp to the rocket park at Kennedy Space Center, where the moon walker Buzz Aldrin came to the podium.
campaign was, according Aldrin, part of his personal dream that as many as possible to experience what he did when he walked around the moon dust for more than 44 years ago.
Then the winners called.
I did not expect to get my name called out, and were therefore both very surprised and of course very happy.
I learned afterwards that I had competed in one place in a group of 37 participants, something I was not aware of; Many countries had secured one ticket among its two to three candidates, while Norway, Sweden, Finland and several other countries all competing for just one of the tickets.
This would probably have been quite demoralizing to have known in advance, since I traveled to Florida in the belief that I had about 20 percent chance of winning, and not 3
Me in front of Lynx. Photo: Voice SUNDLISÆTER
I learned that I had achieved the highest overall score of 37 in the group, which must have been because I had trained some strength in advance, I was mentally prepared for pilot training and g-forces for rear ride in the F-16 have science background, and a general interest in history.
This worked out all the tests were evaluated on quite well with competence, even though I’m no Marit Bjoergen of athlete scale.
So even though this was not fair, so was the withdrawal globally nor fair. It was such stringent requirements for selection in England than in Norway, so in a way the British had made themselves more deserving of a higher probability of winning the contest in Florida. Whether this was an optimal selection process is another matter, but I can not complain.
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Meeting with Buzz
One of the funniest this evening, besides winning a trip into space was hitting moon walker Buzz Aldrin, an easygoing and nice guy.
He could tell that he has Swedish ancestry, and wondered why I could teach him to ski. I said of course yes, maybe no I expect this will be followed up with the first.
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Weightless state
following day, Friday 6 December, got the 23 winners fly parabelflyvninger with Zero G Corporation at Cape Canaveral. We took off aboard a modified Boeing 727-200, which has an upgraded hydraulic system to ensure continuous hydraulic pressure during parabelmanøvrene.
doning is also assigned accelerometers in the cockpit, but has not undergone any further structural modifications to the hull.
plane is divided into three so-called flow zones that are devoid of interior and wrapped up the foam, where participants can float around in weightlessness for up to 30 seconds during each parabelflyvning.
This was surreal, incredibly strange and funny, we floated around in thin air, upside down and spin around, and I’ve never experienced anything like this.
How does it feel thus to soar aboard the space station in space. We emptied the water out of the plane, which shaped up as water balls that floated around for so splashing down on the floor when the plane came in the bottom of the flight profile and started to pull up again.
Space next
remains that the rocket plane from XCOR completed and tested before we can be launched into space.
See pictures from the entire stay in the top picture series in this matter.
winning team with Buzz Aldrin. Photo: The organizer
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