Ahmed Khan: Houston Science Series

Why Human Space Flight at NASA matters A (Former) Space Station Flight Controller's Personal

Experience

Note: NOT An Official NASA Presentation, any views expressed here are the authors own opinion

What this talk is about

My experience working for the ISS programMy opinions on human spaceflight as a human endeavor

perspective

Who am I: Space Geek

Grew up with Sci-Fi and Space Enthusiasm- E.G. Apollo 13

NASA And the Public Have changed a lot since then

Who am I: Web Geek

Web and Mobile developer: education in CS

who am I?

Ahmed KhanSpace Station Flight Controller and ISS Software Developer at NASA -(2005-2012)

Geek with the iPad

ISS Mission Control Room -Houston Texas

Inspiration: important for skeptics and rationalists too

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The PROBLEM

How Does the Public View Human Spaceflight?

perception

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Space may be the final frontier....

reality

But its made in a Hollywood Basement.... "RHCPs"

ISS: Cost Comparison

Russian Rockets for US astronauts

The end of the shuttle program last year, means we rely on Russian Soyuz rockets

less capacityno US "Human Rated" Rockettoday

Reality: Space Travel is Hard: It takes a lot of energy!

Gravity Well

The International Space Station

History of the Space Station

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History: 1964 Early Diagram

Space Station Freedom: Circa 1980s

Mir: 90's Russian Space Station

(Mostly) Successfully Demonstrated Station Concept

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The ISS Today

How High is the ISS

236 Miles avg above earth

Remember GravityWell!

Where are the people?

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Astronauts: Public Perception

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ISS: a global engineering & Science project

10 Years of Assembly Flights from around the world

ISS in orbit

ISS: what a view

ISS Life in Space 24 hrs a day

ISS: Science in Space

Robotics in Space

Video: Building the ISS

Global Control Centers and Science centers

5 Control Centers and multiple support centers

ISS: How Does it work

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What is ISSLive?

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Some Tweets about NASA's budget

Daily Life: operations planning for ISS

Working at JSC

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Epilogue: Calling all Science Enthusiasts in

Houston

Appendix: Student Team iPad app

This app was developed by CMU students over the summer -it has not been released yet -pending an API and code change for the xml data it uses

We want to build more apps like this!! see: http://vimeo.com/27221226

ISSLive Website(Apps coming soon)

http://spacestationlive.jsc.nasa.gov

3 Apps completed:Feb: Android App, iPad and iPhone App

Technology

WEB BASED STREAMING Infrastructure

WEB BASED DATA DISPLAYS using 3D immersive technology

Web Service based Crew and Science Timelines

MOBILE APPLICATIONS with live data

Public API - Public can use it to build application with live data

Public ISS Data

API

eg...see http://spacestationlive.jsc.nasa.gov/resources/naTelemetry.html

.../resources/API/Station/OnboardTime/Current<resource name="CurrentTime"><symbol>TIME_000001</symbol><description units="datetime" format="string">Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) </description></symbol></resource>

API -Clients

Lightstreamer provides Client sdks -need to use

.NET ClientWeb Client (assuming cross site scripting issue resolved)mobile client: JAVA androidmobile client: iOS investigate using plugin based one (silverlight, flex, java air etc)

API -documentation

How do you use this API in your application

High leveldetails -step by stepexamples -code snippets etc.programming tutorialsreferenced from REST api