ASEN 5158 Space Habitat Design

8/26/2008

Introduction / Course Overview

 

Syllabus is online - http://www.colorado.edu/ASEN/asen5158/

 

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Bioastronautics - The study and support of life in space.

Chapter 1 (part 1) Historical Perspectives

 

Learning Objectives

  1. List names/events and dates (year) of the major human space flight ‘firsts’

Initial Satellite Launches

 

Sputnik (October 4, 1957)

  • Sputnik 1 - world’s first artificial satellite
  • Sputnik 2 - first living animal to orbit Earth, Laika

 

Explorer 1 (January31, 1958)

  • First US satellite
  • Detected a Van Allen Radiation Belt

Historical Overview of Human Space Flight

 

Vostock 1 (April 12, 1961)

  • First human in space (Yuri Gagarin)

 

Mercury Program (May 1961- May 1963)

  • Original 7 US astronauts
  • 6 flights
  • Basic survival and life support demonstrated

 

Gemini Program (March 1965 – November 1966)

  • 10 flights, planning began in 1961
  • Duration up to 14 days (coincident with Lunar mission duration)
  • Designed to study performance and physiological limits
  • First US EVA

 

Apollo Program (January 1967 – December 1972)

  • 11 flights
  • Goal as stated by JFK in 1961 … to land a man on the moon and return safely to Earth before the decade is out.
  • Apollo 11 (July 1969)
  • 6 landings total through 1972
  • Total of 12 men have been on the moon

 

Soyuz Program (1960’s and 70’s)

  • Originally intended to be USSR’s lunar program
  • Upgraded versions of the original design are still in use (Soyuz T, TM and TMA)

 

Salyut 1 (1970’s and 80’s)

  • First Space Station Launched April 19, 1971

 

Skylab (May 1973 – February 1974)

  • 3 missions – 28, 59 and 84 days
  • 3 crewmembers each

 

Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP, July 1975)

  • 1 flight (July 75)
  • 9 days

 

US Space Shuttle

  • First shuttle flight (STS-1) on April 12, 1981
  • Challenger accident occurred 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986 (STS-51L)
  • Flights resumed with the launch of STS-26 on September 29, 1988
  • Columbia and crew lost during entry 16 minutes before landing Feb. 1, 2003 (STS-107)
  • Flights resumed with the launch of STS-114 on July 26, 2005

 

Mir (February 1986 – March 2001)

·        Launched February 19, 1986

  • Expected Lifetime of "at least 5 years"
  • Deorbited March 23, 2001

 

Shuttle-Mir Program (February 1994 – June 1998)

  • Total of 7 US Astronauts lived aboard Mir

 

International Space Station (ISS)

  • 16 nations participating:  United States, Canada, Japan, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Brazil
  • First element "Zarya" launched November 1998
  • Second component "Unity" mated during STS-88 and ISS entered for the first time on 10 December 1998
  • Continuous crewed rotations since November 2000
  • See the ISS (note, if you are somewhere besides Boulder, follow links from the ‘home’ button on this site for viewing info at your location)

 

Chinese Shenzhou (Oct 15, 2003)

  • Third country to launch a human into space

 

SpaceShipOne (June 21, 2004)

  • First private entity to launch a human into space (suborbital)

Human Space Flight Tragedies

 

Apollo 1 (Jan 1967)

Soyuz 1 (April 1967)

Soyuz 11 (June 1971)

STS-51L Challenger (Jan 1986)

STS-107 Columbia (Feb 2003)

The Future of Human Space Flight

 

Personal Space Flight Industry

  • Space tourism
  • NASA Commercial Orbital Transport Services (COTS)

 

NASA Constellation Program

  • NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration -- Moon, Mars and beyond…

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