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Nasa's human rating requirements - a historical interpretive perspective
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | White, Juli Kramer Langford, Gerald |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Description | Section 3.0 of NASA's Human Rating Requirements for Space Systems, NPR 8705.2, represents technical engineering requirements that the Agenc y requires of Human Space Systems. In many cases the requirements are not unlike requirements for any space system, crewed or uncrewed, th ey deal with successfully accomplishing the mission objectives. Howev er, they go one step further and have requirements that go beyond suc cessful completion of the mission and dictate functions or actions ne cessary to assure the survival of the crew. In that regard they are u nique from other space system requirements. Even with their uniquenes s the technical requirements of the NPR 8705.2 have been relatively u nchanged in overall intent over the revisions. They all have provided for system redundancy, crew habitable environment, crew situational awareness, crew operation, system control, emergency egress and abort systems. In a few cases the intent of the requirement was changed in tentionally, either to restrict certain types of systems or their fun ctions, or to encompass lessons learned from previous programs. For t he most part the requirements are non controversial and represent the current best practices for human space systems, however, a few requi rements are always debated and have evolved over revisions of the NPR due to studies conducted with various programs like the Orbital Spac e Plane and the Constellation Programs. Those requirements will be di scussed using results of trade studies conducted during past programs highlighting how these particular requirements have evolved through the revisions of the NPR. Comments will also be provided for requirem ents that although not debated, have provided challenges in interpret ation. |
| File Size | 1187389 |
| Page Count | 26 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20120001522 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9t200k4z |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2011-10-17 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Space Transportation And Safety Evaluation Flight Safety Survival Equipment Procedures Human Factors Engineering Software Reliability Assessments Requirements Abort Apparatus Manned Spacecraft Fault Tolerance Specifications Systems Engineering Safety Factors Risk Assessment Histories Project Planning Aerospace Safety Crew Exploration Vehicle Risk Management Spacecraft Design Software Engineering Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
