NASA has recently formed the Constellation Program to achieve the objectives of maintaining American presence in low Earth orbit, returning to the moon for purposes of establishing an outpost, and laying the foundation to explore Mars and beyond in the first half of the 21st century. The Constellation Program's heritage rests on the successes and lessons learned from NASA's previous human spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS). This paper describes the rationale behind the formulation of the Constellation Program, including organizational structure, and workforce structure, as well as the approaches to requirements generation, budget formulation, operational philosophies, and procurement strategies.
Formulation of NASA's Constellation Program
2007
26 pages
Report
No indication
English
NTRS | 2009
|NASA's Future Human Spaceflight Program - Constellation
NTIS | 2009
|NASA's Future Human Spaceflight Program - Constellation
NTRS | 2009
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