Keynote: The Road to Space and the Future
summary
Personal path from engineer to astronaut leads to two ISS missions (2006, 2009) with spacewalks that repaired a stuck solar array and tested a mice bone-loss experiment; shuttle architecture uses five redundant flight computers while Soyuz avionics once ran on 256k memory. ISS runs about 50 386-based MDMS processors and roughly 350,000 sensors; life support reaches ~98% water recycling. Tests include 3D printing and on-satellite AI to prefilter data. Reusable rockets and Starship promise 10–100x lower launch cost; ISS retirement around 2031 shifts work to commercial stations (Axiom, Orbital Reef).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18Training to be an astronaut
- 4:53Launch and space mission
- 9:29International Space Station
- 14:18Computing in space
- 19:19Second mission and ISS life
- 28:42ISS computer architecture
- 31:25Research and human physiology
- 35:16Life support and daily routine
- 43:16Daily life and mission details
- 47:34Observing Earth from space
- 51:57Modern space industry
- 55:18New space launchers
- 57:16Future lunar and Mars goals
