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Transcript: Many early designs (Mercury, Gemini, and Russian) were capsules Projects such as skylab and were special cases, where specialization was required. Each mission helped increase the complexity of engineering. The Present Getting to Mars! Maintaining Permanent establishment in Space International Space Station (ISS) New Propellants such as Nasa's Green Propellant Privatization of Space by Space-X, Boeing, and others. Bibliography Engineering of the past MARS! And how to get there History of Past Human Spaceflight NASA & contractors are working together to build spacecrafts like Orion that are capable of such a trip. New ion and green propellants are safer/easier to handle and last longer. Not Far from the ability to go to mars! Many plans are speculations, and some have not even been worked on yet because of NASA's focus on Mars. Asteroid redirect mission places asteroid in Lunar orbit, so we can study it... Maybe even start to mine them. Colonization of moon and/or Mars? Spaceflight was almost completely government controlled Russians and Americans in competition until Apollo-Soyuz, where they decided to work together Space Exploration largely built up for political reasons 4.41% of US spending was applied to NASA during 1966, compared to .47 % now (according to theguardian.com) The Future First American Program was Mercury, followed by Gemini, skylab, and Apollo Space Shuttles were recently dicontinued The Russian-American Space race drove human and robotic exploration of space forward Manned Spaceflight's Past Manned Spaceflight's Present Manned spaceflight's Future "Space Shuttles changed the way the US did business in Space"- Ken Phillips, Director of Aeronautics HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT We have maintained a permanent presence in space for over 15 years largely due to the ISS Private Companies such as Space-X supply ISS, and have plans for operations such as "Space Hotels" Theodore Shulsky Period 1 5/19/15 Earth Orbit Space The Past "Apollo extended the range and scope of their lunar explorations"-Rumerman Observation: California Science Center: Endeavour Exhibit. Interview: Ken Phillip, Director of Aeronautics at California Science Center Letter to John M. Logsden Websites & Books: theguardian.com Nasa.gov US Human Spaceflight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-2006. By Judy Rumerman, Chris Gamble, and Gabriel Okolski