Space Tourism

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Space Tourism

• Captain Matt Rardon
• Space Mission and Launch Operations
• ASCI 512

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Introduction

• History
• SpaceCub
• Ansari X
• SpaceShipOne
• Hybrid Rocket
• Flight Profile
• The Next Projects

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History

• On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito,
  multi-millionaire, became the first space tourist
  in a Russian Soyuz capsule.

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SpaceCub

• In 1994, a well-educated science fiction writer
  named Geoffrey Landis proposed that it might be
  possible to develop an inexpensive rocket that
  could take a private pilot to the edge of space

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Ansari X

• The SpaceCub was never developed, but, in 1995,
  Doctor David Diamantis, an entrepenuer in
  space-related industries, propsed an X Prize of
  10 million dollars to anyone that could develop
  a completely industry-funded craft that could
  reach the edge of space.

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Spaceship One

• On June 21, 2004 Mike Melvill became the first
  civilian to pilot a craft into space.
• Built by Burt Rutan and financed by Paul Allen,
  SpaceShipOne made history as the first manned,
  private spaceship

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The White Knight
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Hybrid Rocket
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Hybrid Rocket

• Uses Nitrous Oxide and HTPB (tire rubber)
• The propellant comes together in an eight-foot
  combustion chamber, where the liquid oxidizer is
  converted into a gas, then ignited by small pyros
  to start the engine
• SpaceShipOne pilots can shut down the vehicle's
  engine by closing a valve though which nitrous
  oxide enters the fuel chamber.

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Flight Profile
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Future Projects
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QUESTIONS?
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Sources

• http//www.space.com/spacetourism/
• http//www.space.com/missionlaunches/sso_rutan_arc
  hive.html
• http//www.dm.net/geoffrey-landis/spacecub.html
• http//www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/
• http//www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/ss1.htm
• http//uashome.alaska.edu/jsnap1/Physics_Project/
  rocket.htm