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October 19, 2006 Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division Engineering Dean’s Conference 2006 Advancing Technology And Education For A Human Base On The Moon And Footprints on Mars Oct 19, 2006 Charter The AFMD Charter encompasses:? Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) System Analysis;? Design, Development, Testing and Engineering (DDTE);? Aeroscience and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD);? Flight Mechanics and Mission Design;? Rendezvous and Proximity Operations and Capture;? Simulation Development. Vision ? The AFMD vision is the expansion and innovative development of space exploration frontiers through application of Aeroscience, GNC, and Flight Mechanics disciplines. Charter (concl.) Mission The AFMD mission is to enable safe, cost-effective and timely space activities through:?Developing and applying state-of-the-art aeroscience technologies; ?Developing and verifying end-to-end GNC systems for JSC programs; ?Generating mission designs and plans. Values The AFMD values include:?Collaborating with industry, academia and other government agencies; ?Providing world class tools, facilities and expertise. Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division GNC Development and Testing (EG2) GNC rapid prototype development and test GNC flight hardware/software development, test, verification, and certification GNC hardware/software interaction testing Navigation systems definition, design, development and test Shuttle subsystem management and flight systems upgrade Space Station subsystem management and flight systems testing Real time, hardware-in-the-loop, pilot-in-the-loop testing Applied Aeroscience and CFD (EG3) Integrated GNC Analysis (EG4) GNC system requirements GNC functional architectures GNC system algorithms GNC system software requirement GNC system test and analysis GNC system verification and certification Rendezvous proximity operations system definition Dynamics and control interaction Flight Mechanics an