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Steven McKee
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
University of Missouri-Columbia
Advisor: Dr. Craig A. Kluever
Abstract
A solution is being developed in order to increase the success rate of an unpowered reusable launch vehicle from the current failure rate of one in five-hundred missions to one in ten-thousand missions. This will be done by implementing a movable and expandable heading alignment cone (HAC). The placement and size of the HAC will be determined by the amount of energy that the vehicle is carrying when it reaches the Terminal Area Energy Management (TAEM) phase of flight.
Steven McKee, a senior Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is from Weatherby Lake, Missouri. He has been involved with aerospace research at the University of Missouri for the past three years under Dr. Craig Kluever. In addition, he has maintained high scholastic standing within the college. Steven plans to attend graduate school at the University of Missouri and pursue a career in the aerospace field.
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