On January 14, 2004 President George W. Bush announced a new Vision for Space Exploration calling for NASA to return humans to the moon. In 2005 NASA decided to use a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) rendezvous strategy for the lunar missions. A Discrete Event Simulation (DES) based model of this strategy was constructed. Results of the model were then used for subsequent analysis to explore the ramifications of the LEO rendezvous strategy.


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    Title :

    Low Earth Orbit Rendezvous Strategy for Lunar Missions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Winter Simulation Conference ; 2006 ; Monterey, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2006-12-03


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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