The new vision of space exploration encompasses a broad range of human and robotic missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Extended human space travel requires high reliability and high performance systems for propulsion, vehicle structures, thermal and radiation protection, crew habitats and health monitoring. Advanced materials and processing technologies are necessary to meet the exploration mission requirements. Materials and processing technologies must be sufficiently mature before they can be inserted into a development program leading to an exploration mission. Exploration will be more affordable by in-situ utilization of materials on the Moon and Mars.


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    Title :

    Materials Challenges in Space Exploration


    Contributors:
    J. Vickers (author) / S. Shah (author)

    Publication date :

    2005


    Size :

    26 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Materials Challenges in Space Exploration

    Bhat, Biliyar N. | NTRS | 2005


    Materials Challenges in Space Exploration

    Bhat, Biliyar N. | NTRS | 2005


    Materials Challenges in Space Exploration

    Vickers, John / Shah, Sandeep | NTRS | 2005