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Astronautical Engineering Seminar

Speaker: Ed Stanton, NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center

Talk Title: Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 Post Mission Overview

Abstract: Mr. Stanton will discuss a Post Mission Overview of the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). He will describe the manufacturing, launch, mission, and splash down of the EFT-1 vehicle. He will also give a brief overview of what is next for the Orion program.

Biography: Ed Stanton is lead technical operations engineer in the Orion Production Operations Office at the Kennedy Space Center. He is responsible for facilitating the successful completion of manufacturing activities required to build the Orion spacecraft articles including the crew module, the service module and the launch abort system. He provides NASA oversight of the prime contractor Lockheed Martin and obtains insight of the Orion production status. This includes providing operational, electrical, fluids and mechanical engineering expertise, along with general project management skills in support of the assembly, integration, testing, and launch operations of the Orion spacecraft.

Ed started his career at the NASA Johnson Space Center (1990-1997) in Houston, TX working Shuttle Approach and Landing software loads, then Secondary payloads, and later on the International Space Station’s (ISS) Robotic workstation. Ed then worked at NASA Ames Research Center (1997-2004) Mountain View, CA on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Aircraft and on a proposal program to study Mars’ weather. For a year in 2004 while at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Ed worked to define Constellation requirements. Since 2005 Ed has worked at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida starting as an ISS Ground Operations Engineer ISS and in 2007 started the Orion Production Operations tasks where he continues to work.

Host: Dan Erwin

More Info: http://astronautics.usc.edu/EdStanton.pdf

Location: VHE 217

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Dan Erwin

Event Link: http://astronautics.usc.edu/EdStanton.pdf