ASTE 527Space Exploration Architectures Concept Synthesis Studio

Final Team Concept Architecture Presentations 

Return To The Moon: Looking Glass 204

Seaver Science Library Auditorium SSL150Monday December 15th, 2008, 6.00-9.30pm

 Astronautics and Space Technology Division

Viterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California

Dec 15, 2008 Looking Glass 204 Overview Madhu Thangavelu

ASTE527 Space Concepts Studio

• 3 Unit Graduate Elective

• Interdisciplinary participants

• Create original concepts – pre-engineering

• Guest lecturers – topics and review

• Individual concept at midterm

• Team Project at Finals

Dec 15, 2008 Looking Glass 204 Overview Madhu Thangavelu

Project Background

• NASA plans to return people to the Moon by 2020• Mars Forward Vision• International Cooperation• Contracts have been issued to build vehicles and

systems to execute this program• We are embarked on crewed missions beyond

Earth Orbit• It will cost US taxpayers about $150 billion in the

next decade • Robotic buildup philosophy

Dec 15, 2008 Looking Glass 204 Overview Madhu Thangavelu

USC Team Project Background

• Using NASA plans :• What can we do besides executing Mars

Forward Vision ?• Tasked to enhance NASA Vision with

“permanent assets” which can benefit all humanity

• Do it in the short term – 2015-2025• Robots + Crew philosophy

Dec 15, 2008 Looking Glass 204 Overview Madhu Thangavelu

Specific Goals

• Crew Safety First Philosophy• Establish a sturdy, permanent Earth-Moon

communications link • Establish a permanent settlement• Establish Suite of Lunar Observatories• Geology and Astrobiology Traverse• Live Off the Land• Inspire a new generation - Outreach

Dec 15, 2008 Looking Glass 204 Overview Madhu Thangavelu

Invited Lecturers Reviewers and Guests  Dr.Buzz Aldrin – Crew member, Apollo 11Bradley Bartz – President ABC Solar, Contributer Space DailyProf. Robert Brodsky – USC Astronautics, Retd. Director of Technology, TRWDr.Marc Cohen AIA – Space Architect, Habitability Group, Northrop GrummanDr.Peter Diamandis - Chairman X Prize Foundation, Founder ISUProf. Dan Erwin – Chairman, USC Astronautics DivisionBoris Fritz - Director of Materials and Processes Lab, Northrop GrummanCatherine Girardey - TSAT Advanced SatComm Group, Director BWIL, Boeing Space Systems Prof. Mike Gruntman – Director, USC Masters Program in AstronauticsCol.Bill Haynes(USAF Retd.) – Retd. Manager Skylab Crew Systems, Test/Fighter PilotRobert Jacobsen – President, 62 Mile ClubDr.Alvar Kabe, Director Structural Dynamics Division, Aerospace CorporationProf. Behrokh Khoshnevis – Industrial and Systems Engineering, Director CRAFT, USCDan Levack - Advanced Concepts Group, Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneEric Mankin – USC News Jaret Matthews - Chief Engineer, ATHLETE, Advanced Robotics Systems Manager, NASA JPLDavid Nixon RIBA – Space ArchitectProf. Doug Noble – Associate Dean, USC School of ArchitectureIliona Outram - Director, Calearth Institute Dr.Knut Oxnevad - President SIMTANO, Concurrent Design Engineering company Dr.Ken Phillips, Curator, California Science Center Aerospace MuseumMichael Potter – Member of ISU Board of Trustees, Paradigm VenturesEd Repic - Retd. Advanced Projects Manager, Rockwell Intl Gene Rogers - Chief Technologist, Boeing Space and Network Systems Prof. Marc Schiler – Director, Building Science Program, USC School of ArchitectureDr.Anita Sengupta - Mars Science Laboratory, NASA JPLProf. Stan Settles – Director, System Architecting Engineering, USCGeorge Shannon – Advanced Concepts Group, Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneJim Shoji - Advanced Concepts Group, Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneRobert Solheim – Product Development Manager, Pratt & Whitney RocketdyneAlice Taylor – Photonica Inc., Formerly Director with Boeing Homeland Security Prof. Firdaus Udwadia – Aerospace, Civil, Systems Engineering, USCProf. Harvey Wichman - Director of Aerospace Pyschology Lab, Claremont McKenna CollegeProf. Peter Will – Director, Robotics, Fellow Information Sciences Institute, USC

Dec 15, 2008 Looking Glass 204 Overview Madhu Thangavelu