Space Exploration

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Space Exploration

• Boy Scout Presentation

November 17, 2003
Amanda Kelly
Shara Walenta
Brad Steinfeldt
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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

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Rocket Pioneers Space Exploration from Dream to
Reality
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Rocket Pioneers

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

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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

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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
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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
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Hermann Oberth
Father of Space Travel
Romania, 1894-1989

• Inspired by Jules Vernes 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)

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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

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Apollo 11 Video
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Career Opportunities in the Space Industry
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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
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Case Study Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and
Opportunity
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Fields in Aerospace Engineering

• Manned Missions
• Un-Manned Missions
• - Science Research and Exploration
• - Communications and National Defense
• Private Industry Competition

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Humans in Space
International Space Station
Space Shuttle
Orbital Space Plane
Humans Establish a Presence in Space
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Un-Manned Missions
Stardust
Kepler
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Private Industry Space Flight
X Prize Civilian Race to Space
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Student Aerospace Projects at The University of
Texas
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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
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The Weightless Wonder

• KC-135 Projects
• Satellite Orientation Control
• Satellite Separation
• Flame Studies

KC-135 Projects Allow Students to feel
weightless
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Questions?