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Do It Yourself: Space. How You Are Building Things That Can Fly in Space
The document discusses the history and evolution of DIY space exploration, highlighting key figures and milestones from ancient observatories to modern ventures like SpaceX and Blue Origin. It emphasizes the role of hackers and tinkerers in advancing space technology and encourages participation in space exploration through accessible fabrication labs and resources. The author, affiliated with Exploration Solutions Inc., shares personal anecdotes and insights on the democratization of space exploration.
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- 1. DO-IT-YOURSELF: SPACE HOW YOUCAN BUILD THINGS THAT CAN FLY IN SPACE
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- 3. Where I Work Exploration Solutions, Inc. Sub-contractor at NASA Ames Research Center
- 4. What I Do Exploration Solutions, Inc. Work for Office of the Chief Technologist Emerging Space Technology Office Participatory Exploration / Planetary Analogs Education Outreach / Visual Social Media I DO NOT REPRESENT NASA…. …but I can tell you some personal stories!
- 5. A Historyof Hacking Government’s Role What is happening now? What you can do soon A few other things… Doing It Yourself
- 6. THIS IS NOTA NEW PHENOMENON! Participatory Exploration = A type of Hacking? Hackers= Tinkers = Makers Just other kinds of explorers Doing It Yourself
- 7. Albert Santos - Dumontover Wright Brothers here at Tempelhof Field Did it Themselves: Aircraft
- 8. 1914 WWIStarts 1915 National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics UK beat us to it in 1909 1918 WWI ends… …Barnstorming Begins! Hacked Surplus Curtiss Jenny JN-4 1926 Air Commerce Act Regulation: Safety & Licensing Elsewhere… Did it Themselves: Aircraft
- 9. 1920 RobertGoddard “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes” 1926 1st liquid fueled rocket launches 1923 Hermann Oberth “The Rocket into Planetary Space” But these guys were not the first hackers trying to explore space…. Did it Themselves: Space
- 10. Did it Themselves:Space Humans have been exploring space… …a LONG TIME! “El Caracol” Mexico 600~800 AD
- 11. Did it Themselves:Space Oldest Known Observatories Greeks: 150 BC Arabs: 825 AD Indians: 869 AD Chinese: 1276 AD Turks: 1577 AD Danes: 1580 Denfeng, China Jairpur, India
- 12. Did It Himself:Space Galileo Galilei ~ the first documented space hacker. Hand polished custom built telescope lenses Discovered Jupiter’s moons Re-ignited interest in building observatories!
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- 14. Sad Facts Many of the ancient observatories were built to gain tactical advantage during wartime Airplane development dramatically accelerated due to the World War I effort. As we all know, World War II & the Cold War were drivers of spacecraft development as well. Big Brother Does It For You
- 15. October 1957 NikolaiKutyrkin Designed Sputnik-1 January 1958 Werner Von Braun Designed Juno-I rocket William Pickering Designed Explorer-1 Government Space
- 16. #SomethingBetter 29-July-1958 National Aeronautics &Space Administration
- 17. Werner von Braun Designed Redstone 1st American in Space Designed Saturn-V “One Small Step…” Government Space
- 18. Government Space …to catchup with the Russians Saturn-V hacked to make a space station…
- 19. Сделайте это сами:Kосмос Russians are the ULTIMATE space hackers MIR Salyut
- 20. Big & Small Satellites Landers& Rovers Government Space Sojourne r Molniy a Telesta r TDRS Lunakhod 1 Spirit & Opportunity
- 21. Doing It Themselves:Space
- 22. Doing It Themselves:Space Backed by very rich benefactors: Scaled Composites (Virgin Galactic, StratoLaunch) Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group) Paul Allen (Microsoft) SpaceX Elon Musk (PayPal) Bigelow Aerospace Robert Bigelow (Budget, Comfort Hotel) Blue Origin Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
- 23. Doing It Themselves:Space Mt Palomar (Rockefeller) Lowell W.M Keck Observatory James Lick Observatory McDonald Observatory
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- 25. Do-It-Yourself: Space Building satellitesout of cellphones
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- 30. Do-It-Yourself: Space OSCA R And ohby the way.. 21 Countries, Dozens of satellites Launched in 1961 Still not new…
- 31. Do-It-Yourself: Space Space isn’talways up.. Western Australia
- 32. Do-It-Yourself: Space United Arab EmiratesArabian Peninsula
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- 34. At NASA Ames,we’re making a Fab Lab to standardize ways for you to make spacecraft Do-It-Yourself: Space
- 35. 127 open/planned Fab Labs GLOBALLY Dozensin Europe 5 in Germany Alone Do-It-Yourself: Space http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/fa q/
- 36. Do-It-Yourself: Space Whatis a Fab Lab? Laser Cutter 3D Printer Desktop Mill Vinyl Cutter Shop Bot
- 37. Do-It-Yourself: Space Our goalis to make satellite construction as easy as downloading 3Dfiles to be printed, milled, & otherwise assembled into functional spacecraft.
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Space station
- #9 1909 British Advisory Committee on Aeronautics1939 – NACA Ames Aeronautical LaboratoryGovernment demand for expensive researchRealization of Profit and industriesNACA Ames was bornConcerns about security
- #12 Interesting Fact: Many observatories around this time were built to understand tactical advantage during wartime
- #13 But he disrupted the status quo and powers that be hindered him
- #14 Notice a pattern
- #23 1909 British Advisory Committee on Aeronautics1939 – NACA Ames Aeronautical LaboratoryGovernment demand for expensive researchRealization of Profit and industriesNACA Ames was bornConcerns about security
- #24 Notice a pattern