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A premier aerospace and defense company 0 GOING BEYOND EARTH ORBIT GOING BEYOND EARTH ORBIT Space Exploration Space Exploration … … Going Beyond Earth Orbit Going Beyond Earth Orbit Presented by: Michael Rudolphi Vice President, Huntsville Space Operations Innovation Innovation … … Delivered. Delivered. Approved for Public Release Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium October 21-22, 2008, Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Alabama
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Space ExplorationSpace Exploration……
Going Beyond Earth OrbitGoing Beyond Earth Orbit
Presented by:
Michael Rudolphi
Vice President, Huntsville Space Operations
Innovation Innovation …… Delivered.Delivered.
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Wernher von Braun Memorial SymposiumOctober 21-22, 2008, Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Alabama
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Ares Launch Vehicles
• Ares I and Ares V leverage on common hardware for low cost
• A single launch provides greater than 400,000 pounds of payload to Earth orbit
• Payloads, mission designs, and architectures are simplified
• Significant national security payload options become available
Ares I
Ares V
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Enabling Exploration
Ares V heavy lift launch vehicle enables missions beyond Earth’s orbit for decades to come
• Space telescopes: deep space and Earth observation
• Visits to nearby asteroids
• Lunar exploration
• Future missions to Mars
Mars and Beyond
James Webb
Space Telescope
Lunar Exploration
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Global Leadership
America’s space exploration for the past 50 years has resulted in many benefits
• Technology advancements
• Economic leadership
• National security
U.S. leadership in space is being
challenged
• Exploration ensures…
– International cooperation and partnerships
– Continued growth of America’s space
technologies and infrastructure
– Advances in technology
– Global prestige
Mars Lander
ISS
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Technology Advances From Exploration
• Advances in technology from exploration fuel the economy
• NASA’s current 11 lunar studies
– ATK developing technology for long-term lunar energy storage
– Will provide significantly more energy storage than advanced lithium-ion battery systems
– Could ultimately translate to a system on Earth
• Spin-offs as a result of exploration
– NASA programs have resulted in more than 1,400 commercial products
Lunar
Energy
Storage
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Inspiring the Next Generation
• Exploration inspires young people to consider education in science, technology, math, and engineering
• NASA needs educated U.S. citizen work force
• Leaving low-Earth orbit generates interest and motivation
– During the first two months of the Mars rover mission, NASA had 6.5 billion hits to their website
• Our view of the universe, and our world in particular, is enlarged and our knowledge enhanced
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Exploration and the Economy
• Technology and education position the U.S. as the global economic leader
• Exploration provides high-technology jobs
– 85% of NASA’s budget is spent through industry contracts
• New technologies and spin-offs from exploration contribute to the economy
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Exploration Is the Future
America’s bold plan to explore new frontiers
and the human exploration of space
provide significant technological,
educational, economic, and
national security benefits
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