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Spacex Merlin 1D Hot Technologies and Topics That May Change Your Lifestyle Date Speaker Topic September 24 Jim Rauf Private Space Travel October 1 Howie Baum Future and Next Best Thing in All Things Internet/Computing October 8 Jack Baldwin Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things October 15 Kirt Hobler Bio-molecular Imaging October 22 Hu Yueh-Chiang DNA and Gene Editing October 29 Meifeng Xu Stem Cell Replacement Therapy November 5 Ram Darolia Wind Energy November 12 John Hutton Early Childhood Brain Development and Learning 1 Private Space Travel Jim Rauf 2 Space Flight-A Very Brief History • Robert Goddard liquid propellant rocket 1926 USA • V-2 missile 1944 German Army • Sputnik 1957 USSR • Yuri Gagarin 1961 USSR • Mercury sub orbital flights 1961 USA • Mercury orbital flights 1962 USA • Gemini orbital flights 1965 USA • Apollo moon landings 1969-1972 USA • Space Shuttle 1981-2011 USA • SpaceShip1 2004 USA-first private flight • International Space Station 1998 Russia USA 3 Private Space Flight-History • September 9, 1982 – Conestoga I, a repurposed • 2004 – President George W. Bush signs the Commercial Minuteman second stage, is launched from Matagorda Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, which provides Island to an altitude of 192 miles by Space Services Inc., a basic legal framework for commercial human becoming the first privately owned and operated rocket spaceflight to reach space • September 2008 – SpaceX conducts the first successful • 1984 – President Ronald Reagan signs the Commercial launch of its Falcon 1 rocket, the first privately developed Space Launch Act of 1984, which mandates NASA to liquid fueled rocket to reach orbit encourage private spaceflight, and authorizes the Office of Commercial Space Transportation to regulate private • December 8,2010 – SpaceX successfully launches and spaceflight in the United States recovers its Dragon capsule on its first mission, marking the first time a privately developed and operated • 1995 – The Office of Commercial Space Transportation is spacecraft is recovered from orbit transferred to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), becoming the FAA Associate Administrator for Space • November 23, 2015 – Blue Origin successfully launches Transportation, or FAA/AST its New Shepard launch system into space and lands it vertically, making it the first VTVL rocket to land on Earth • 2004 – Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne conducts the from space first privately flown and funded manned spaceflight, piloted by Mike Melville 4 Private Space Flight-History • November 25, 2015 – President Barack Obama signs the • January 21, 2018 – American company Rocket Lab U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, successfully launched its Electron rocket from Mahia also known as the Spurring Private Aerospace Launch Center carrying three cubesats into low earth Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Act or SPACE Act orbit of 2015, which codifies the ability of American companies • This was the first time that a rocket entered orbit to own material resources extracted in outer space after launching from a privately owned and • December 21, 2015 – SpaceX lands the first stage of its operated spaceport Falcon 9 rocket at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral, • February 6, 2018– SpaceX successfully launches their marking the first recovery of a VTVL stage from an orbital new rocket "Falcon Heavy" on its first test flight and rocket manages to land two of the three boosters upright • January 22, 2016– Blue Origin successfully launches and • April 11, 2019– SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon lands the same New Shepard booster flown in November, Heavy with its first paid commercial satellite and lands all making it the first VTVL rocket to reach space twice three boosters • March 30, 2017– SpaceX successfully launches and lands • Two at Cape Canaveral the first stage of a Falcon 9 that had previously flown in • One in the Atlantic Ocean on drone ship "Of Course April 2016, making it the first VTVL rocket to be used on I Still Love You” two orbital flights 5 Private Space Travel-Regulation • The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) • AST manages its licensing and regulatory work as well as was established in 1984 as part of the Office of the programs and initiatives to ensure the health and Secretary of Transportation within the Department of facilitate the growth of the U.S. commercial space Transportation (DOT) transportation industry through the Office of the • November 1995, AST was transferred to the Federal Associate Administrator along with its five divisions: Aviation Administration (FAA) it was established to: • The Space Transportation Development Division • Regulate the U.S. commercial space transportation • The Licensing and Evaluation Division industry, to ensure compliance with international • The Regulations and Analysis Division obligations of the United States, and to protect the public • The Safety Inspection Division health and safety, safety of property, and national • The Operations Integration Division security and foreign policy interests of the United States • Encourage, facilitate, and promote commercial space launches and reentries by the private sector • Recommend appropriate changes in Federal statutes, treaties, regulations, policies, plans, and procedures • Facilitate the strengthening and expansion of the United States space transportation infrastructure 6 Private Space Companies • Satellite Launchers • Space Tourism • IHI Corp. • Blue Origin-suborbital • MHI Corp • Space Adventures-uses Russian Soyuz to ISS • Northrop Grumman • Virgin Galactic- Suborbital -Spaceship2/WhiteKnight2 • Rocket Lab • SpaceX • Space Capsules-Crew • Sea Launch • Blue Origin- • United Launch Alliance • Boeing –CST100’ • SpaceX-Dragon Capsule • Space Capsules-Cargo • SpaceX • Northrop Grumman-Cygnus-automated ISS supply • Sierra Nevada Corp-Dream Chaser Lifting body 7 Private Space Travel-U.S. Regulation Active Launch Licenses Active Launch Site Operators • Orbital Sciences Corp • Mojave Air &Space Port CA • United Launch Alliance • New Mexico Spaceflight Authority NM • Space Exploration Technologies Corp • Space Florida FL • Lockheed Martin Launch Services • Alaska Aerospace Development Corp AK • S7 Sea Launch Limited • Virgin Commercial Spaceflight Authority VA • Virgin Galactic • Adams County CO • Rocket Lab USA • Virginia Commercial Spaceflight Authority VA • Exos Aerospace • Harris Corp CA • Virgin Orbit LLC • Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority OK • Astra Aerospace • Houston Airport System TX • Blue origin • Jacksonville Aviation Authority FL • Midland International Airport TX 8 Virgin Galactic-Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites • June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, designed and fabricated by Scaled Composites, a company owned by aerospace designer Burt Rutan became the first nongovernmental crewed spacecraft to fly 62.5 miles above Earth's surface • SpaceShipOne crossed a boundary called the Kármán line, the accepted point of entry to space as defined by the International Astronautical Federation • SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for repeated flights in a privately developed, reusable spacecraft Rutan’s design is the basis for Branson’s • Sept. 29 , 2004 and Oct. 4,2004 Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo • SpaceShipOne’s development was backed by suborbital vehicle billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen 9 Virgin Galactic—Richard Branson • Virgin Galactic founded in 2004 by Richard Branson • “Democratize Space Travel” • Operates the reusable SpaceShipTwo spaceflight system: • White Knight Two, a custom-built, carrier aircraft • SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first passenger carrying spaceship to be built by a private company and operated in commercial service • The first Virgin Galactic spaceship to enter service is VSS Unity • Virgin Galactic’s spaceships will offer everyone the opportunity to become private astronauts and experience the wonder of space for themselves • Virgin Galactic spaceships will also offer the research community a platform for space-based science • Plan is to run a regular schedule of spaceflights for private individuals and researchers from the New Mexico’s Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose built commercial spaceport 10 Virgin Galactic—Vehicles WhiteKnightTwo is a custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet SpaceShipTwo in flight aircraft, designed to carry SpaceShipTwo up to an altitude of ~50,000 feet 11 Virgin Galactic—Vehicles • SpaceShipTwo is a reusable, winged spacecraft designed to carry eight people (including two pilots) into space safely and with high frequency • Powered by a hybrid rocket motor –solid fuel and liquid oxidizer-allows shutdown at any time during the flight • Most innovative feature is its unique capability to change its shape in space to ensure a repeatable safe re-entry • By rotating its wings and tail booms upwards while in space, the vehicle’s stability and rate of deceleration in descent is controlled by aerodynamic forces • This “feathering” design takes the best from both the traditional capsule and winged space vehicle designs, and adds a little magic of its own • Exposure to G-forces during SpaceShipTwo’s ascent and descent is managed by thanks our custom-designed seats • The cabin is specifically designed to optimize the out-of-seat zero gravity experience and has multiple windows for viewing 12 United Launch Alliance -ULA Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES) is a • Formed December 2006 as a joint venture • between Lockheed Martin Space Systems and proposed liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper-
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