1. An Analysis of Past and Future Space Craft Launches
Jacob Hayworth and Matthew Chaloupecky
Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics 2013
Visual and Image Processing
Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, Mr. Luke Rice, Ms. Bahar Akhtar
Appalachian State University

2. Space Shuttles and SpaceX
Atlantis launches for another mission
Dragon docking to the ISS
Falcon 9 v.1.1 ready to launch

3. What Goes into a Launch?
Challenger’s fuel tank collapsed 73 seconds after liftoff
Photo of a space shuttle launch taken from an airplane

4. Method
To collect data for research we used the NASA website and SpaceVidCast videos.

5. Method
Using this table and other information collected we were able to create many graphs in excel

12. Conclusions
Using the data we collected and analyzed we found several similar trends.

13. Conclusions Speed continues to increase throughout the launch
Mass decreases linearly
Individual launches have similar rates of ascension, varying on speed
Total kilometers and orbits have little affect on the success of a launch

14. References
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15. Questions? Acknowledgements Dr. Rahman Tashakkori Mr. Luke Rice
Ms. Bahar Akhtar
Ms. Lori Tyler
Questions?