Space Tourism
Captain Matt Rardon Space Mission and Launch Operations ASCI 512
Introduction
History SpaceCub Ansari X SpaceShipOne Hybrid Rocket Flight Profile The Next Projects
History
On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito, multimillionaire, became the first space tourist in a Russian Soyuz capsule.
SpaceCub
In 1994, a well-educated science fiction writer named Geoffrey Landis proposed that it might be possible to develop an inexpensive rocket that could take a private pilot to the edge of space
Ansari X
The SpaceCub was never developed, but, in 1995, Doctor David Diamantis, an entrepenuer in spacerelated industries, propsed an X Prize of $10 million dollars to anyone that could develop a completely industryfunded craft that could reach the edge of space.
Spaceship One
On June 21, 2004 Mike Melvill became the first civilian to pilot a craft into space. Built by Burt Rutan and financed by Paul Allen, SpaceShipOne made history as the first manned, private spaceship
The White Knight
Hybrid Rocket
Hybrid Rocket
Uses Nitrous Oxide and HTPB (tire rubber) The propellant comes together in an eight-foot combustion chamber, where the liquid oxidizer is converted into a gas, then ignited by small pyros to start the engine SpaceShipOne pilots can shut down the vehicle's engine by closing a valve though which nitrous oxide enters the fuel chamber.
Flight Profile
Future Projects
QUESTIONS?
Sources
http://www.space.com/spacetourism/ http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sso_ruta n_archive.html http://www.dm.net/~geoffreylandis/spacecub.html http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/ss1.ht m http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jsnap1/Physics_Proj ect/rocket.htm