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 History of Hacking
Government’s Role
What is happening now?
What you can do soon
A few other things…
Doing It Yourself
6. THIS IS NOT A NEW
PHENOMENON!
Participatory Exploration = A type of
Hacking?
Hackers= Tinkers =
Makers
Just other kinds of
explorers
Doing It Yourself
7. Albert Santos -
Dumont over
Wright Brothers here
at Tempelhof Field
Did it Themselves: Aircraft
8. 1914 WWI Starts
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 Robert Goddard
“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!
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
Nikolai Kutyrkin
Designed Sputnik-1
January 1958
Werner Von Braun
Designed Juno-I rocket
William Pickering
Designed Explorer-1
Government 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
37. Do-It-Yourself: Space
Our goal is to make satellite
construction as easy as
downloading 3Dfiles to be
printed, milled, & otherwise
assembled into functional
spacecraft.
1909 British Advisory Committee on Aeronautics1939 – NACA Ames Aeronautical LaboratoryGovernment demand for expensive researchRealization of Profit and industriesNACA Ames was bornConcerns about security
Interesting Fact: Many observatories around this time were built to understand tactical advantage during wartime
But he disrupted the status quo and powers that be hindered him
Notice a pattern
1909 British Advisory Committee on Aeronautics1939 – NACA Ames Aeronautical LaboratoryGovernment demand for expensive researchRealization of Profit and industriesNACA Ames was bornConcerns about security