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Space Exploration

Space Exploration. Boy Scout Presentation. November 17, 2003. Amanda Kelly. Shara Walenta. Brad Steinfeldt. Agenda. Rocket Pioneers Opportunities in the Space Industry - The parts of a space mission

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Space Exploration

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  1. Space Exploration Boy Scout Presentation November 17, 2003 Amanda Kelly Shara Walenta Brad Steinfeldt

  2. Agenda • Rocket Pioneers • Opportunities in the Space Industry - The parts of a space mission - A Mars Mission Case Study - Various Fields in Aerospace Engineering • UT Aerospace Engineering Student Projects - Launching small satellites - Floating in weightlessness! • Questions

  3. Rocket Pioneers: Space Exploration from Dream to Reality

  4. Rocket Pioneers • Inspiration • Jules Verne • Fathers of Rocketry • Tsiolkovsky • Goddard • Oberth • Rocket Engineer • Von Braun

  5. Jules Verne 1828 - 1904 • Wrote various poems, novels, and short stories • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea • Around the World in 80 Days • A Journey to the Center of the Earth • From the Earth to the Moon • Predictions from his writing • Long distance travel in balloon • Very long range cannon • Helicopter • Apollo project that led the first men to the Moon in 1969 • Interplanetary travels • Electrical engine

  6. K.E. Tsiolkovsky Father of Russian Astronautics (1857 – 1935) • Specialized in liquid fuel propellants, • multistage rockets, and space travel • Theoretical Scientist but never made a rocket himself • Famous Rocket Equation: • Predictions: • - Orbital space station • - Settlements outside of Earth “To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon,to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on itssatellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic?” - Tsiolkovsky

  7. Robert Goddard Father of American modern rocket propulsion 1882-1945 • Some Historical Firsts for Goddard • First proved that a rocket will work in a vacuum, that it needs no air to push against • First received U.S. patent in idea of multi-stage rocket, 1914 • First developed and shot a liquid fuel rocket, March 16,1926 • First developed gyro control apparatus for rocket flight • Robert H. Goddard besides 1926 liquid- fueled rocket.Flew 41 ft. in the air. “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is thehope of today and reality of tomorrow.” - Goddard

  8. Hermann Oberth Father of Space Travel Romania, 1894-1989 • Inspired by Jules Verne’s famous novel: “From Earth to the Moon” • 1923, he became the first to prove that rockets could put a man into space • He originated the idea of a multi-stage rocket • V-2 (Vengeance) rocket, World War II • He was the first person to suggest an manned orbiting laboratory similar to what is now the International Space Station (ISS)

  9. Werner Von Braun German Rocket Engineer 1912-1977 • Assistant to Hermann Oberth for V-2 rocket • Taken to the US after the war • Director of Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama • Programs at NASA: • Redstone Rocket - launched first satellite for western hemisphere • Saturn V and 1B • - Used to carry astronauts to the Moon on Apollo missions • - Used to launch Skylab, worlds first space station

  10. Apollo 11 Video

  11. Career Opportunities in the Space Industry

  12. Behind the Scenes of a Mission • To accomplish a mission, engineers are broken down into teams: • - airframe/structure • - propulsion system • - guidance, navigation, and control • - thermal systems • - power systems • - human living environment systems • - science payloads to orbit • - microgravity science experiments • These teams are further broken down into sub-teams A successful mission requires thousands of engineers and scientists working together across the country

  13. Case Study: Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity

  14. Fields in Aerospace Engineering • Manned Missions • Un-Manned Missions - Science Research and Exploration - Communications and National Defense • Private Industry Competition

  15. Humans in Space International Space Station Space Shuttle Orbital Space Plane Humans Establish a Presence in Space

  16. Deep Space Science Communications Un-Manned Missions Stardust Kepler

  17. Private Industry Space Flight X Prize: Civilian Race to Space

  18. Student Aerospace Projects at The University of Texas

  19. What are UTStudents Doing? • CanSat • Small Coke can sized satellite • Launched to 12,000 feet in 2002 • FASTRAC • Automatically performs navigation maneuvers between 2 satellites • Tracking Station • Able to send/receive information about satellites and their orbits Exciting Projects Break New Ground

  20. “The Weightless Wonder” • KC-135 Projects • Satellite Orientation Control • Satellite Separation • Flame Studies KC-135 Projects Allow Students to feel “weightless”

  21. Questions?

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