A View

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A View to the Stars Dr. Hans Stromeyer
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If you want to build a ship, dont drum up men
to gather wood, divide the work and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and
endless sea (Antoine Saint-Exupery)
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• Milestones Space Exploration
• Chinese rockets for ceremonial purposes
• Theory of planetary travel
• (Herman Oberth, 1923)
• Principles of astronautics
• (Konstantin Tsiolkovski, 1924)
• Modern propulsion (Robert Goddard, 1926)
• Saturn Rocket (Wernher von Braun, 1912 - 1977)
• 1979 - Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle)

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• History of Space Exploration
• 1957 Sputnik
• 1958 Polaris Missile Submarine Program
• 1961 Jury Gagarin (Earth Orbit)
• 1969 Neill Armstrong (Moon)
• 1971 Salyut, 1973 Skylab
• 1975 Apollo/Soyuz
• 1979 Spacelab
• 1986 2001 MIR
• 2000 - .International Space Station
• PERT as first project management technique
  introduced

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• My Experience
• 1985 Spacelab D-1 (Backup astronaut)
• 1992 MIR92 Project
• 1993 Spacelab D-2 (Training manager)
• 1994 EuroMIR 94 and EuroMIR95
• 1997 Mission MIR97 Project manager
• 1998 DLR Space Operations Reorganization
• 2001 United Nations STARS Program
• 2002 Telemedicine Bringing the doctor to the
  patient
• MIR Russian Space Station DLR German
  Space Agency STARS Student research program

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Crew MIR97 Upper row Musabajew, Schlegel,
Budarin Lower Row Zibliew, Ewald, Lasutkin
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Preparation Soyuz TM is lifted upright in
Baikonur
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Launch Always a moment of high tension
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Flight Roaring thunder hits the audience
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Docking MIR approach as seen from Soyuz TM
spaceship
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Encounter in Space Crew arrival at the station
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Experiments start Reinhold Ewald on MIR. There
is no time to relaxthe early parameters of human
adaptation to space are most important
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My Sweat Room In the German Space Operations
Center, managers and controllers monitor and
guide science payload operations
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• Science Mission MIR97
• Crew Zibliew, Lasutkin, Ewald
• Launch February 2, 1997 (Baikonur)
• Docking February 4, 1997
• 30 Experiments
• Landing March 2, 1997

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• Project MIR97 Objectives
• 30 Experiments in life science and material
  science
• Training astronauts and ground control team
• Experience long-term space travel
• Cooperation German-, European-, Russian- and
  American Space Agencies
• Contracts German, Russian companies
• Russian mission control, German science control
• Preparation International Space Station

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• Genesis of a disaster
• Cosmonaut Lasutkin checked MIR station oxygen
  level on routine basis
• The primary generators didnt generate enough
  (Electrolysis)
• Additional oxygen had to be made
• Lithium-perchlorate generators used
• Usually hand warm, but this time

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Science Mission MIR97 ?????! FIRE!
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• GET THE PROJECT MANAGER!!
• While the astronauts were working extinguishing
  the flames
• Medical evaluation
• Safety of crew and station
• Immediate and further action
• Notification of senior management, escalation
  plan
• Media coverage plan

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• Shortly after

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• Outcome of incident
• Astronauts acted appropriately and heroically
• Flames were extinguished and status analysis
  performed
• Nobody onboard hurt seriously
• Normal operations resumed
• No adverse public outcry
• Project objectives maintained

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Return As one cosmonaut once expressed it A
landing in Soyuz feels like a traffic accident
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• Characteristics of Space Missions
• Narrow budget
• German, Russian, American companies
• Team spread out over long distances
• Multinational and multicultural teams
• Narrow time windows (no slack allowed)
• Complex technical environment
• Different and diverse control centers (centers of
  expertise)

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• Characteristics of Space Missions
• Is there anything different to any other
  project??

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Model Project Excellence
Result
Management
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SO.. HOW DID WE DO IT??
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MIR97 and Project Excellence
Result
Management
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• Project Objectives
• Project Plan
• Stakeholder analysis
• Risk analysis

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• People
• Team-training
• Astronaut-training
• The astronaut is the arm of the team

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• Resources
• Finance management
• (the SAP story)
• Used downgraded Excel
• Used VERY downgraded
• MS Project

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• Process
• Project reviews and feedback
• Lessons learnt and knowledge transfer
• Workflow analysis in training and mission

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People satisfaction Never change a winning
team
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• Project results
• Positive media coverage
• In time and below budget
• Project objectives met
• ESA Astronaut Training Center now in Cologne,
  Germany
• European Space Agency

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• Muito obrigado!

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• Hans Stromeyer
• Project management functions
• Member in definition and improvement of
  GPM-IPMA Project Excellence Model
• Lead Project Assessor
• Chair national and international jury of the IPMA
  Project Management Award
• Chair Board for the review of the new 2005
  project manager certification textbook
• German Project Management Association
• International Project Management Association