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AERO 4740

Space Mission Design  Lecture 2 Class Notes

 What's happening in space?

History of Space Flight  Human spaceflight history

             Early rocketry:

                        Tselkovsky, Goddard, Korolov, Von Braun

 
Early satellites:
Sputnik– first LEO artificial satellite – Oct 4, 1957

            Explorer 1– first U.S. satellite – Jan 31, 1958

 Human Human spaceflight:

            Vostock 1–Yuri Gagarin, first human in space – April 12, 1961 (Cosmonaut Day)

             Mercury– Alan Shepherd first American in space – May 5, 1961

             Gemini– Two crew, rendezvous, 2 weeks

             Soyuz– 3 crew, first flight one crew (Komorov death)

             Apollo– 3 crew, 11 flights, 6 moon landing missions

             Salyut– First space station – April, 1971

             Skylab– First US space station, 3 missions (28, 59, 84 days)

             Apollo Soyuz Test Project– 1 flight, Russian/US spacecraft docked

             Space Shuttle – First re-usable spacecraft, April 12, 1981, Shuttle Reference Manual

             Mir – Multi-module, 1986-2001

             Shuttle/Mir Program – Phase 1 of International Space Station, 7 joint missions

             International Space Station – 16 nation partnership, first element – Functional

                        Cargo Block (Zarya) 1998, continuously crewed since Oct 31, 2000

             The world’s space programs:

            Russian Federal Space Agency (FSA), Rosaviakosmos, Moscow, Russia.   Also Energia, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center             

            Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Montreal, Canada

            European Space Agency (ESA) - Germany, France, Italy, Sweden

            Japanese Space Agency (JAXA)     

            USA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

            French - (CNES)

            German -  (DLR)

            China