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Hubble Revisited on NASA's 50Th Anniversary Volume 34, Issue 2 AIAA Houston Section www.aiaa-houston.org Summer 2009 Hubble Revisited on NASA’s 50th Anniversary AIAA Houston Horizons Summer 2009 Page 1 Summer 2009 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S From the Editor 3 HOUSTON Life Onboard the ISS 4 Sputnik Declassified 6 Horizons is a quarterly publication of the Houston section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Aeros and Autos at Ellington Field 7 Dr. Steven Everett Revisiting A Direct Approach 8 Editor AIAA Historic Aerospace Site Ceremony at Hobby Fest: 1940 Air Terminal 12 Assistant Editors Douglas Yazell Jon Berndt The Future of U.S. Planetary Exploration 16 Sean Keefe Don Kulba Bob Beremand Louis Abney Our Section’s Annual Technical Symposium 2009 (ATS 2009) 18 Alan Simon International Activities 22 AIAA Houston Section Executive Council A Lunar Surface Rendezvous Architecture Proposal 28 Chad Brinkley A New Way to Stay In Touch: Facebook 29 Chair Staying Informed 29 Ellen Gillespie Sarah Shull Chair-Elect Secretary A New Light on the Moon 30 Douglas Yazell Jason Tenenbaum (Cover Story) Recollections on the Apollo Lunar Lander 33 Past Chair Treasurer Calendar 34 Nick Pantazis Sean Carter Vice-Chair, Operations Vice-Chair, Technical EAA Corner 35 Operations Technical Conference Presentations/Articles by Houston Section Members 36 Dr. Gary Turner Dr. Albert A. Jackson Melissa Gordon Dr. Zafar Taqvi Joseph Algranti, 1925-2009 38 Linda Phonharath Bebe Kelly-Serrato Munir Kundawala Bill Atwell Richard Edwards, 1933-2009 42 Dr. Doug Schwab Sheikh Ahsan Lisa Voiles William West APR Corner 44 Svetlana Hanson Paul Nielsen Cranium Cruncher 45 Jim Palmer Bob Beremand Dr. Ben Longmier Gary Brown Gabe Garrett Chet Vaughan Horizons and AIAA Houston Web Site Joel Henry Dr. Michael Lernbeck AIAA National Communications Award Winner Matthew Easterly Ludmilla Dmitriev Dr. Steven Everett Dr. Kamlesh Lulla Gary Cowan Amy Efting Councilors Tom Propp Natasha Rowell Donald Baker 2005 2006 2007 Rafael Munoz This newsletter is created by members of the Houston section. Opinions expressed herein other than Prerit Shah by elected Houston section officers belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily represent the Holly Feldman position of AIAA or the Houston section. Unless explicitly stated, in no way are the comments of Ansley Collins individual contributors to Horizons to be construed as necessarily the opinion or position of AIAA, Lorenn Vega-Martinez NASA, its contractors, or any other organization. Please address all newsletter correspondence to Irene Chan the Editor:[email protected] More information at http://www.aiaa-houston.org/orgchart Cover: (NASA photograph) Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins photographed the Lunar Module Eagle during a pre-landing inspection, 40 years ago this month. AIAA Houston Horizons Summer 2009 Page 2 Page 3 Our Professional Duty From the Editor Featured in this issue are a style ―Lunar orbit rendez- sion. Indeed, in the June issue few of the more controversial vous‖ (LOR) for the unknown of Aerospace America, editor topics that our section has ad- complexity of a precision land- Elaine Camhi posed some rhe- dressed in some time. We get ing and surface refueling and torical questions, asking an update of the latest version resupply. In return, he claims, whether the current approach of DIRECT in an interview an increased ability to ―land to achieving the Vision for with Ross Tierney, who origi- anywhere and leave anytime‖ Space Exploration is the ap- nally conceived of this archi- is obtained. His presentation propriate one. We owe it to tecture, a "re-imagined" ver- generated some debate, both at ourselves and the general pub- sion of the National Launch the conference and after his lic to have an honest discus- System (NLS) system from subsequent seminar, as to its sion of the technical merits of 1991, and was its original pub- feasibility. any idea on the table, above lic face when it was published Ironically, the analogues to and beyond loyalty to a given in October 2006. The system the DIRECT and LSR ap- company, agency, or program. continues to generate some proaches in the initial stages of We are to ―remove our corpo- vigorous dialogue, both on the Apollo were ranked as less rate hats,‖ as Wayne Rast ad- local level within our profes- desirable than the LOR ap- vised during the ATS when sional society and more pub- proach eventually successfully describing our inputs to the licly, as version 3.0 has been executed during that program. decision making in Congress. released on the heels of its Additional proposals for alter- I am proud to have been wit- rebuttal of NASA‘s review of nate access to space with vary- ness to some intense but civil version 2.0. ing degrees of viability also discussions, and hope that they Also in this issue is a re- include a man-rated Delta IV, can continue. port of a Lunch and Learn in various Commercial Orbital Incidentally, details con- which Daniel Adamo, former Transfer Services (COTS) pro- cerning these ideas (and JSC Flight Dynamics Officer, jects, or even a shuttle-derived probably a multitude of others) expanded on his Annual Tech- vehicle. The feasibility of any have been made available to nical Symposium (ATS) pres- of these ideas has yet to be the recently convened entation proposing yet another shown. Augustine commission for alternate to the Constellation However, an ongoing dis- their review. They have also architecture. His approach cussion of the relative merits of established a website through includes a ―Lunar surface ren- these and other potential alter- which anyone can pose sug- dezvous‖ (LSR), which trades nates to Constellation is a gestions, comments or ques- the challenges of an Apollo- healthy trend for our profes- tions at http://www.nasa.gov/ Left: Artist concept of the Altair Lunar lander, courtesy of NASA. AIAA Houston Horizons Summer 2009 Page 3 Page 4 Event Astronaut Garrett Reisman Talks About Life Onboard the ISS During Expedition 16/17 ALAN SIMON, ASSISTANT EDITOR Astronaut Garrett Reis- using a flashlight, plastic man (ISS Expedition Mis- pirate sword, and a stowage sions 16/17) shared his fasci- bag. Reisman also showed off nating personal perspectives his many acrobatic feats, about flying onboard the sometimes with background space shuttle and spending music from 2001: A Space three months aboard the In- Odyssey. Additionally, he ternational Space Station proved his skills performing a (ISS) during an exceptional host of eating and drinking presentation at Clear Lake‘s tricks that included gummy Congregation Shaar Hasha- fish and water blobs. lom on January 11, 2009. He Reisman‘s expectations also focused on the influence were far exceeded in every that his Jewish heritage has way during his voyage. He had on his life and career. flew with 19 different crew- Roger Weisman, a local members, including astro- "waist." The body has a grap- Above: Garrett Reisman crew space enthusiast, coordinated nauts and cosmonauts, and ple fixture at one end that can photo the presentation. developed some strong bonds be grasped by the larger Dr. Reisman began with with these individuals. He Space Station Arm, Cana- a short video of his flight launched on STS-123 in darm2 so that Dextre can be aboard the now 10-year old March 2008 and was a mem- positioned at the various ISS and followed with a se- ber of both the Expedition 16 worksites around the Space ries of still imagery. Though and 17 crews. He returned Station. The other end of the Reisman stayed busy with home in June 2008 as a mem- body has an end effector vir- important work during his ber of the STS-124 crew. tually identical to that of three-month stay, he did have Reisman was the first Canadarm2, so that the Dex- a few opportunities to do Jewish crew member on the tre can be stored on Space some fun activities. And International Space Station. Station grapple fixtures, or it those were the activities high- And as Israel celebrated its can be used as an extension Upper right: Dextre, the two- lighted for the engaged audi- 60th Independence Day in to the larger arm. Reisman armed Canadian-built manipula- ence. Perhaps never before May 2008, he sent a greeting claimed he secretly worried tor, assembled by Reisman has juggling been as intrigu- to the people of Israel. "Every that Dextre might go berserk, Below: Israel as seen from orbit ing as when demonstrated time the Station flies over the and he would not know what State of Israel, I try to find a to do. Fortunately for Reis- window, and it never fails to man, Dextre does not have a move me when I see the fa- brain, and someone like Reis- miliar outline of Israel com- man is required to operate the ing toward us from over the robot. horizon," he said. One day during his stay Dr. Reisman‘s primary onboard the station, he and responsibilities were the in- his crewmates attempted mu- stallation of the Japanese tiny from Mission Control. module (which was so large, They had formulated three it had to be carried up in three simple demands: they re- separate pieces) and assembly quired an adjustment in their of the Canadian built robot flight profile that would put called Dextre. Dextre resem- them in an east-to-west tra- bles a headless torso, fitted jectory; they required a hot with two extremely agile 3- tub; and finally, they de- meter-long arms. The 3.5- manded pizza. Fortunately meter-long body pivots at the for Mission Control, these AIAA Houston Horizons Summer 2009 Page 4 Page 5 demands were coincident He particularly liked the Eif- Upon his return to Earth Below: Baseballs from ceremo- with All Fool‘s Day.
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