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“A Brief History of Manned Spaceflight”
GREG NELSONLoma Linda Universitywith thanks to Marcelo Vazquez, Ph.D. for some slides and suggestions
June 17, 2008
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World Manned Spaceflight Launch Sites
Google Maps
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Spaceports
Wikipedia
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
Google Maps
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Soyuz Rocket and Spacecraft
Soyuz TMA-9 launch RSASoyuz Apollo Soyuz Test Project NASA
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Kennedy Space Center
Google Maps
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Kennedy Space Center
NASA KSC
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Centre Spatial Guyanais ESA Kourou Facility
Google Maps
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Kourou
ESA
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Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Google Maps
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Mojave Spaceport & Edwards AFB
Google Maps Wikipedia
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Yuri Gagarin
1st Man in Space 12 April 1961 Wikipedia
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Valentina Tereshkova
1st Woman in Space 16 June 1963Wikipedia
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Mercury Program Astronauts
A. Shepherd, W. Schirra, J. Glenn
V. Grissom, S. Carpenter, D. Slayton, G. CooperNASA
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Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins
NASA
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Yang Liwei
1st Taikonaut
CNN: October 16, 2003
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X-15 Spaceplane
Launch from B52 bomberAscent to > 100 kmLanding at EAFB
US Air Force, North American Aviation, Wikipedia
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Ballistic Re-entry
Schlieren optics photos from wind tunnel tests and concept of blunt ballistic re-entry vehicle with ablative heat shield
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Vostok: 1st Manned Spacecraft
RSAWikipediaNicogossianet al. 1989.
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Mercury Spacecraft “Capsule”
NASA
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Mercury Launch Vehicles
Redstone and AtlasNASA
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Gemini Spacecraft
NASANicogossianet al. 1989.
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Soyuz Spacecraft
RSA, Nicogossian et al. 1989
Soyuz TMA-6
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Soyuz Interior
RSA
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Soyuz Landing
ESA: TM33 landing and Soyuz mission profile
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Extravehicular Activities, EVAs
NASAFirst Russian and first American space walks (EVA’s) plus modern STS maneuvering unit
Voskhod 2
Gemini 4
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Saturn V
NASA, Nicogossian et al. 1989
Saturn V was the largest rocket and launched the Apollo spacecraft and SkyLab
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Apollo Command & Service Modules
NASA
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Apollo Lunar Module
NASAApollo 11 LM on lunar surface and returning to command module. Apollo 16 lift-off from moon.
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Apollo Lunar Module
NASA
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Lunar Surface Activities: Apollo 17
NASA
Rover activities in lunar
highlands and note potentially biohazardous
dust on astronaut E. Cernan
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Apollo Command Module Landing & Recovery
NASAApollo 17 Landing and Recovery Operations
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STS Launch and Landing
NASA
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Space Shuttle Configuration
NASA
Shuttle componentsfor the cargo bay
and a view of the mid-deck
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Lifting Bodies
NASA
Lifting body aircraft were gliders used to testaerodynamics of unpowered re-entry vehicles
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Buran
EnergiaRSA
The Russianversion of theShuttle onlyflew once
in an unmanned
mode
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Shenzhou Spacecraft
CNN:Monday, October 6, 2003Wikipedia
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Shenzhou Landing
CNN:Monday, October 6, 2003
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Salyut 7 Space Station
Salyut 7 from Soyuz TM13 RSA & Wikipedia
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Progress Cargo Vehicle
Progress M52RSA
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Skylab: Converted Saturn IVB Stage
NASAWikipedia
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Mir Space Station
Mir on June 12, 1998; Re-entry 3-23-2001; Mir docked to Atlantis and Soyuz. Wikipedia
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International Space Station after STS 123 Mission
NASA
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ISS Interior
NASA
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STS / ISS Integration & Assembly
Shuttle, Soyuz, Progress, Jules Verne / ATM Logistics
NASA
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Jules Verne / Automated Transfer Vehicle
European Space Agency, ESA and BBC News 9 March 2008
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ASA
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Radiation Monitoring on ISS
NASA
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Instrumented Phantom Studies
NASAESA
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SpaceShipOne
1st Commercial Manned SpaceflightScaled Composites, Inc.
Launch from White Knight AircraftAscent to > 100 km
Landing at Mojave Spaceport
Wikipedia
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NASA
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Constellation Program Concepts
Ares Rocket, Earth Departure Vehicle, Lunar Surface Module and Crew Exploration Vehicle
NASA
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Orion: Crew Exploration Vehicle
NASA