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Project columbiad: mission to the moon. book 1: executive summary. volume 1: mission trade studies and requirements. volume 2: subsystem trade studies and selection
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Denecke, Johan Kader, Beth Liu, Celia Goetz, John Clarke, Michael Garber, Suzanne Larson, Erik Haughwout Sr., James Cazeau, Patrick Weintraub, Ben |
| Copyright Year | 1992 |
| Description | In response to the Report of the Advisory Committee on the future of the U.S. Space Program and a request from NASA's Exploration Office, the MIT Hunsaker Aerospace Corporation (HAC) conducted a feasibility study, known as Project Columbiad, on reestablishing human presence on the Moon before the year 2000. The mission criteria established were to transport a four person crew to the lunar surface at any latitude and back to Earth with a 14-28 day stay on the lunar surface. Safety followed by cost of the Columbiad Mission were the top level priorities of HAC. The resulting design has a precursor mission that emplaces the required surface payloads before the piloted mission arrives. Both the precursor and piloted missions require two National Launch System (NLS) launches. Both the precursor and piloted mission have an Earth orbit rendezvous (EOR) with a direct transit to the Moon post-EOR. The piloted mission returns to Earth via a direct transit. Included among the surface payloads preemplaced are a habitat, solar power plant (including fuel cells for the lunar night), lunar rover, and mechanisms used to cover the habitat with regolith (lunar soil) in order to protect the crew members from severe solar flare radiation. |
| File Size | 23986902 |
| Page Count | 587 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19930009044 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6xw9bf24 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1992-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Exploration Lunar Spacecraft Spacecrews Lunar Trajectories Feasibility Analysis Mission Planning National Launch Vehicle Program Lunar Bases Safety University Program Lunar Exploration Lunar Landing Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
