Importance of joint efforts for balanced process of designing and education

• Specialists involved in long-term space exploration missions designing.
• International efforts are important in highly qualified specialists׳ training.
• A project-oriented method of education as a way of training modernization.
• International experience in this field is based on team-project execution.
• “Space Development: Theory and Practice” summer school at Bauman University.

This paper discusses importance of a strategic planning and design process when developing long-term space exploration missions both robotic and manned. The discussion begins with reviewing current and/or traditional international perspectives on space development at the American, Russian and European space agencies. Some analogies and comparisons will be drawn upon analysis of several international student collaborative programs: Summer International workshops at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, International European Summer Space School “Future Space Technologies and Experiments in Space”, Summer school at Stuttgart University in Germany. The paper will focus on discussion about optimization of design and planning processes for successful space exploration missions and will highlight importance of the following:
• understanding connectivity between different levels of human being and machinery;
• simultaneous mission planning approach;
• reflections and correlations between disciplines involved in planning and executing space exploration missions;
• knowledge gained from different disciplines and through cross-applying and re-applying design approaches between variable space related fields of study and research.The conclusions will summarize benefits and complications of applying balanced design approach at all levels of the design process. Analysis of successes and failures of organizational efforts in space endeavors is used as a methodological approach to identify key questions to be researched as they often cause many planning and design processing problems.