Predicted Space Exploration Missions (Robotic and Human) Will Require the Use of Cost-Cutting New Technologies, Including 3-D Immersive Visualization Environments (IVEs)

摘要

The 55~(th) International Astronautical Congress (IAC) at Vancouver, B.C. discusses many new missions of Space Exploration and Utilization. For example, mankind wants to return to the Moon to extract valuable resources; emplace ever-larger telescopes in Deep-Space; send humans to land on Mars - or on the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos; and establish Space Gateways at the Sun-Earth L_2 point or at the Earth-Moon L_1 point. If we are to afford all of these new missions, then cost-cutting new technologies and novel operational strategies must be utilized. 3-D-Immersive Visualization is one of the technologies that is just beginning to be used in many fields of exploration, simulation and design. This is being done on both a micro- and macro- scale. This paper further applies 3-D Immersive Visualization to Space Exploration and Utilization.