Index - C

CAIB (Columbia Accident Investigation Board), 64

Canadian Space Agency (CSA), 86

CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology corporation), 49

Cassini, Giovanni, 131

Cassini mission, 27, 136-137, 136f

Casualties, space
     Challenger accident, 11, 22, 25, 62-63
     overview, 14-15
     Soviet cosmonauts, 46-47

CGRO (Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory), 98-99, 98f

Challenger accident, 11, 14-15, 25, 42, 62-63

Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXRO), 99-100, 101f, 101t

Chimpanzees, 14, 42

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), 49

China's Space Program: An Overview (Congressional Research Service), 49

Christy, James, 132

Clerk, Agnes, 114

Climate Orbiter, Mars, 117

Clinton, Bill, 78

CME (coronal mass ejections), 105, 105f

CNES (National Centre for Space Studies), 49

Cold War
     beginning of, 5-6
     nuclear weapons, 9-10
     Space Defense Initiative (SDI), 42-43

Collins, Michael, 22, 23

Colonization of the moon, 51

Columbia accident, 11, 14, 25, 64, 64t, 83

Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB), 64

Columbia spacecraft, 59f

Commercial satellites, 13

Communication from Earth, 135

Communications satellite, 12-13

Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), 98-99, 98f

Contingency abort, 61

Contractors, space shuttle program, 62

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 2

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 105, 105f

Cosmos 1, 51

Costs
     International Space Station (ISS), 82
     Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs), 128
     moon race, 20
     NASA budget, 18f, 35-36, 35f, 36f, 37f
     public opinion on funding NASA, 141-142, 141(f9.4), 142f, 143f
     space shuttle design, 56
     space shuttle launch delays, 83-85
     space shuttle program, 53-54
     space shuttle upgrade budgets, 68t

Crew training, 85-86, 88t

Criticism, space shuttle program, 63, 64, 67

CSA (Canadian Space Agency), 86

Curriculum development, 147

CXRO (Chandra X-Ray Observatory), 99-100, 101f, 101t