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 missions 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 mecanisms used to cover the habitat with regolith (lunar soil) in order to protect the crew members from severe solar flare radiation.


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    Titel :

    Project Columbiad: Reestablishment of Human Presence on the Moon


    Beteiligte:
    J. Shea (Autor:in) / S. Weiss (Autor:in) / H. Alexander (Autor:in) / P. Belobaba (Autor:in) / G. Loboda (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1992


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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