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Title: Space Tourism


1
Space Tourism
  • Captain Matt Rardon
  • Space Mission and Launch Operations
  • ASCI 512

2
Introduction
  • History
  • SpaceCub
  • Ansari X
  • SpaceShipOne
  • Hybrid Rocket
  • Flight Profile
  • The Next Projects

3
History
  • On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito,
    multi-millionaire, became the first space tourist
    in a Russian Soyuz capsule.

4
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

5
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.

6
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

7
The White Knight
8
Hybrid Rocket
9
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
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