Spacecraft Egress And Rescue Operations: Planning For And Managing Post-Landing Contingencies In Manned Space Missions

Spacecraft Egress and Rescue Operations presents the evolution of the planning associated with the landing and post-landing phase of a manned space mission and then presents an overview of the types of egress systems and procedures that have historically been used on manned space missions. An understanding of pre-launch and post-landing failures that can lead to egress operations, as with the hazardous environments that these failures might create, is investigated. Further, the uncertainties of the human factors involved with egress operations are assessed, as with managing the effects of deconditioning from long-duration spaceflight and injury potential. This book is intended as a reference for the professional student of the design of manned spaceflight architecture and is intended to support a stand-alone course or serve as a specialized topic of spaceflight systems engineering course at the upper-undergraduate or graduate level. The author's experience as a system engineer for NASA's Constellation Program provided many learned lessons and an understanding of both effective methods to address multi-faceted issues complicated by human-factors issues, the randomness of environments spacecraft may end up in, and the international complexities of contingency rescue plans. The same experience also provided sensitivity to the pitfalls that could be encountered. It is the author's intention to preserve the maturation of knowledge associated with the contingency planning of space missions in order to better assist commercial space architecture developers and future operators.

• | Author: Jason David Reimuller
• | Publisher: Integrated Spaceflight Services, Llc
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 294 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0997147202
• | ISBN-13: 9780997147209