Von Braun paradigm

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The Von Braun Paradigm is based on the visions of the German-American rocket engineer Wernher von Braun about space travel . The term was coined by Dwayne A. Day in 1994 . Dwayne A. Day described the paradigm as a long-term NASA strategy for manned space travel. The basic idea of ​​the Von Braun paradigm is that the development of space travel should occur in a logical order, starting with the implementation of suborbital and orbital flights and ending with the colonization of the moon and Mars .

construction

The Von Braun paradigm can be summarized in five steps:

  1. In the first step, multi-stage rockets that bring satellites, animals and people into space are to be constructed.
  2. Subsequently, the development of a reusable spacecraft should enable people and equipment to be transported into orbit around the earth. In this way, the journey into space can be carried out routinely and more cheaply.
  3. The construction of a space station is to serve as a platform for observing the earth and starting a space expedition.
  4. Von Braun wanted to initiate the colonization of the moon with the first moon landings. His vision was to build a permanent moon base .
  5. A colonization of Mars is the final step of the Von Braun paradigm.

This type of division of the paradigm has also been published in various journals and books by other scientists such as Howard McCurdy, Roger Launius and Michael J. Neufeld.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael J. Neufeld The Von Braun Paradigm and NASA's Long-Term Planning for Human Spaceflight , accessed May 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Roger D. Launius, Howard E. McCurdy: Robots and humans in space flight: Technology, evolution and interplanetary travel. In: Technology in Society 29, 2007, pp. 71-282, accessed May 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kenneth Chang On to the Moon, And to Mars Via von Braun. , The New York Times, January 14, 2004, accessed May 5, 2017.
  4. ^ Roger D. Launius, Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars . Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press 2002. pp. 26-27; Launius and Howard E. McCurdy, Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2008. pp. 64-65, accessed May 8, 2017