Lunar regolith simulant production is absolutely critical to returning man to the Moon. Regolith simulant is used to test hardware exposed to the lunar surface environment, simulate health risks to astronauts, practice in situ resource utilization (ISRU) techniques, and evaluate dust mitigation strategies. Lunar regolith simulant design, production process, and management is a cooperative venture between members of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The MSFC simulant team is a satellite of the Dust group based at Glenn Research Center. The goals of the cooperative group are to (1) reproduce characteristics of lunar regolith using simulants, (2) produce simulants as cheaply as possible, (3) produce simulants in the amount needed, and (4) produce simulants to meet users? schedules.


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    Title :

    NASA Lunar Regolith Simulant Program


    Contributors:
    Edmunson, J. (author) / Betts, W. (author) / Rickman, D. (author) / McLemore, C. (author) / Fikes, J. (author) / Stoeser, D. (author) / Wilson, S. (author) / Schrader, C. (author)

    Conference:

    Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2010 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-03-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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