MANSFIELD — Ohio State Mansfield has announced two opportunities to participate in a lecture and discussion about the NASA and the Artemis Program on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
NASA is leading a team of international space partners to establish a sustained presence on the moon.
Termed the Artemis Program, astronauts will be launched to the lunar south pole where a permanent base will be established and the surface explored.
An exploration architecture has been developed based on NASA’s Space Launch System and the Orion Crew Vehicle, together with the Human Landing System and ultimately the Gateway Lunar Space Station.
A successful test flight, called Artemis I, of the Space Launch System and Orion was conducted in November-December 2022, during which Orion orbited the moon and returned to earth.
A second test flight, Artemis II, is scheduled for 2025, this time with a crew of four astronauts, who will circle the moon and return to earth.
A third test flight, Artemis III, is scheduled for late 2026, during which a lunar landing will be conducted, and astronauts will explore the lunar surface for the first time since December 1972.
Following Artemis III, all lunar landings will be conducted by way of the Gateway Space Station and the Human Landing System.
The presentation will summarize the previous accomplishments of the Apollo Program and the recent Constellation Program, while focusing on Artemis and the future.
James R. Scott is a retired NASA Senior Research Scientist and Space Systems Engineer.
He has a B.A. degree in History (SUNY), a M.S. in Applied Mathematics (Purdue) and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (Notre Dame).
During his 28-year career at NASA, Scott conducted leading edge research in the computational sciences, including the fields of computational fluid dynamics, computational unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, and spacecraft trajectory analysis.
He also served as a technical team lead and manager of computational fluid dynamics code development at the Glenn Research Center. Scott was selected for and completed Glenn’s Space Mission Excellence Program.
He supported the Constellation Program as Lead Systems Engineer for both the Ares I Upper Stage Sensor Data Qualification System and the Ares V Earth Departure Stage for NASA’s return to the Moon.
Scott completed his NASA career working on the Space Launch System (SLS), providing both lead and support systems engineering for the In-Space Transfer Stage and Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
The SLS is the largest rocket NASA has launched, successfully completing the Artemis I test flight and launch to the Moon and return to Earth, Nov. 16 to Dec. 11, 2022.
Everyone is welcome to attend either presentation.
The afternoon session will take place from 12:40 to 1:25 p.m. in Ovalwood Hall Room 100. The evening presentation will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Rield Hall Room 229.
The evening location has same-level, close-in parking and elevator access to the second floor of the building.
Questions should be directed to Cindy Wood at wood.1183@osu.edu or 419 755-4113.