1. 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

2. What this talk is about
My experience working for the ISS program
My opinions on human spaceflight as a human endeavor
perspective

3. 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

4. Who am I: Web Geek
Web and Mobile developer: education in CS

5. who am I?
Ahmed Khan
Space Station Flight Controller and ISS Software
Developer at NASA -(2005-2012)
Geek with the iPad
ISS Mission Control Room -
Houston Texas

6. Inspiration: important for skeptics and rationalists too

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9. The PROBLEM
How Does the Public View Human Spaceflight?

10. perception
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Space may be the final frontier....

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

12. ISS: Cost Comparison

13. Russian Rockets for US
astronauts
The end of the shuttle program last year, means we rely
on Russian Soyuz rockets
less capacity
no US
"Human Rated" Rocket
today

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

15. Gravity Well

16. The International Space
Station

17. History of the Space Station
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History:
1964 Early Diagram

18. Space Station Freedom: Circa 1980s

19. Mir: 90's Russian Space
Station
(Mostly) Successfully Demonstrated Station Concept

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The ISS Today

21. How High is the ISS
236 Miles avg above earth

22. Remember
Gravity
Well!

23. Where
are the people

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25. Astronauts: Public Perception

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27. ISS: a global engineering &
Science project
10 Years of Assembly Flights from around the world

28. ISS in orbit

29. ISS: what a view

30. ISS Life in Space 24 hrs a day

31. ISS: Science in
Space

32. Robotics in Space

33. Video: Building the ISS

34. Global Control Centers and
Science centers
5 Control Centers and multiple support centers

35. ISS: How Does it work
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36. What is ISSLive?

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38. Some Tweets about NASA's
budget

39. Daily Life: operations
planning for ISS

40. Working at JSC

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43. Epilogue: Calling all Science
Enthusiasts in Houston

44. 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

45. ISSLive Website
(Apps coming soon)
http://spacestationlive.jsc.nasa.gov
3 Apps completed:
Feb: Android App, iPad and iPhone App

46. 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

47. Public ISS Data

48. 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>

49. API -Clients
Lightstreamer provides Client sdks -need to use
.NET Client
Web Client (assuming cross site scripting issue resolved)
mobile client: JAVA android
mobile client: iOS
investigate using plugin based one (silverlight, flex, java
air etc)

50. API -documentation
How do you use this API in your application
High level
details -step by step
examples -code snippets etc.
programming tutorials
referenced from REST api