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Links to Engineering Design Competitions

Now that you have met the design challenges of SpaceCAD, why not continue by participating in some of the technology competitions available to students? Following is a listing of URLs for several design competitions where you can put your newly acquired CAD and design skills to use.

Duracell - design a battery-powered device
Future Cities - design and model a future city
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair - science fair
JETS - Junior Engineering Technical Society Events
NASA Annual Moon Buggy Design Contest - design a human-powered moon buggy
NASA Design a Mission to Mars - design a mission to Mars
Craftsman Young Inventors - design and build a new tool
Toshiba Exploravision - redesign an existing technology

Do you know of other competitions that we should include here?

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Permissions

Apperson, John. CadStd® Program. http://www.cadstd.com CAD Freeware. Permission to feature software on the site given by John Apperson, April, 2000, email message. apperson@cadstd.com

NASA. All photos and original NASA technical drawings used in SpaceCAD come from NASA web sites (see table below). Their use does not imply endorsement by NASA. Copyright explicitly waived at NASA website. http://www.nasa.gov

Audio of Shuttle Launch at /C006970F from NASA Shuttle Web site http://www.shuttle.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-72/sounds/

Translation from English to other languages used software by Free Translation.com, http://www.freetranslation.com

NASA Photo Credits

NASA URL Subject Location in SpaceCAD
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS7/10074860.jpg
Apollo re-entry apollo1.htm, Apollo.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS11/10075184.jpg
Lunar Module apollo2.htm, Apollo.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS15/10075731.jpg
Lunar Rover at Bennett Hill D5rover2.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MA6/10073611.jpg
Mercury cabin interior merc-int.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MA9/10073765.jpg
Mercury instrument panel mercuryi.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MERC_OV/10073397.jpg
Mercury spacecraft Mercury1.htm, Mercury.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MERUNMAN/10073446.jpg
Mercury Redstone launch mercuryr.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MERUNMAN/10073447.jpg
Mercury console mercuryc.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MR3/10073496.jpg
Alan Shepard Mercury2.htm, Mercury.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MR3/10073507.jpg
Mercury capsule L7d2.htm, L7.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MR3/10073512.jpg
Mercury launch Mercury.htm, Mercury3.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/MR3/10073523.jpg
Mercury recovery Mercury.htm, Mercury4.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS26/10062932.jpg
Satellite D4sat.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS26/10063005.jpg
Shuttle galley1 sgalley1.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS3/10060679.jpg
Shuttle hygiene P4.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS41/10064423.jpg
Shuttle galley 2 sgalley2.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS41B/10061699.jpg
Extravehicular Mobility Unit emu.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS41D/10061515.jpg
Wide body satellite D4sat1.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS51D/10062908.jpg
Rhea Seddon L12foot.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS51I/10062252.jpg Space shuttle side view L10S6.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS11/10075233.jpg Apollo 11 launch Apollo.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/GT12/10074610.jpg Gemini landing history.htm
http://www-b.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/marsland.htm Mars Lander diagram D6.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS10/10075155.jpg The Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules (CSM) Apollo.htm
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/lores/s69_39961.jpg
Apollo 11 PPCSM.htm 
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-96/lores/sts096s006.jpg
Shuttle Discovery Launch L10.htm, L10foot.htm
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/gemini/gemini11/lores/s66-50767.jpg
Gemini 11 Gemini4.htm, L9.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/GT3/10073929.jpg
Molly Brown lifts off Gemini.htm, Gemini1.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/GT4/10074016.jpg
The first EVA Gemini.htm, Gemini2.htm
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/GT6/10074244.jpg
Gemini 7 docking with Gemini 6 Gemini.htm, Gemini3.htm

References

Electronic Sources
Text or Multimedia from Web Pages, FTP sites, Telnet

NASA Technical Drawings - See table below.

NASA URL Subject Where cited in SpaceCAD
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/mercury1.gif
Mercury interior layout L6.htm, L7.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/mercury2.gif
Mercury main instrument panel L5.htm, L7.htm, L7D3.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/mercury3.gif
Mercury console L4.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/mercury6.gif
Redstone Rocket L8.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/mercury7.gif
Interior of crew station L7d4.htm, L7.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/gemini17.gif
Gemini spacecraft parachute landing system L9.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/astp/pk68.htm
Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM) PPCSM.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/shuttle/e5-9.htm
Foot restraint platform L11.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/shuttle/e5-21.htm
Personal hygiene equipment P4.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/shuttle/e1-8.htm
Space Shuttle Orbiter L10.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/shuttle/e3-6.htm
Dimensions of the Orbiter vehicle P3.htm

Printed Materials
Books

  1. Kirkpatrick, James. The AutoCAD Book. Prentice-Hall, 2000.
  2. Von Braun, Wernher and Frederick I. Ordway III, History of Rocketry and Space Travel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969.

 

 

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