In July of 2013, U.S. Congressman Kennedy (D-Mass.) successfully offered an amendment to H.R. 2687, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2013. 'International Participation.The President should invite the United States partners in the International Space Station program and other nations, as appropriate, to participate in an international initiative under the leadership of the United States to achieve the goal of successfully conducting a crewed mission to the surface of Mars.' This paper presents a concept for an international campaign to launch and assemble a crewed Mars Transfer Vehicle. NASA.s .Human Exploration of Mars: Design Reference Architecture 5.0. (DRA 5.0) was used as the point of departure for this concept. DRA 5.0 assumed that the launch and assembly campaign would be conducted using NASA launch vehicles. The concept presented utilizes a mixed fleet of NASA Space Launch System (SLS), U.S. commercial and international launch vehicles to accomplish the launch and assembly campaign. This concept has the benefit of potentially reducing the campaign duration. However, the additional complexity of the campaign must also be considered. The reliability of the launch and assembly campaign utilizing SLS launches augmented with commercial and international launch vehicles is analyzed and compared using discrete event simulation.


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    Title :

    International Human Mission to Mars: Analyzing A Conceptual Launch and Assembly Campaign


    Contributors:
    G. Cates (author) / C. Stromgren (author) / D. Arney (author) / W. Cirillo (author) / K. Goodliff (author)

    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    18 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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