1. Space Flight: Basic Requirements

2. Space Flight Basic requirements for space launchers Supporting theory Enabling technology Inspired leadership

3. Space Flight Requirements – reaching orbit  Supporting theory Orbital mechanics Launch dynamics Supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics Staging Stable, high-efficiency rocket engine combustion Guidance & control Lots of other details!

4. Space Flight Requirements – reaching orbit  Enabling technology Engine  High efficiency propellants  High-pressure, high-flow, low-weight pumps  Strong, high-temperature materials for high-thrust engines  Combustion chamber and nozzle cooling Structures  Low-weight and high-temp materials for components and structures Flight control  Active gyro/inertial stabilization  Electronic sensors  Electromechanical/hydraulic controls  Supersonic wind tunnel testing

5. Space Flight Requirements – reaching orbit  Inspired leadership Robert Goddard (engineer, U.S.) Wernher von Braun (engineer, Germany) Sergi Korolev (engineer, USSR)

6. Space Flight Advances  Space research, space technology, and space exploration has been accelerated in the past by: Conflict (WW-II, Cold War) Competition (Space Race, Race to the Moon) Desire to expand/collaborate (International Space Station, Cassini) Inspired leadership  Goddard  Von Braun  Korolev

7. Future Space Flight Advances Conflict? Competition? Desire to expand/collaborate? Inspired leadership?