This paper discusses the fundamentals of architecting a major human spaceflight program and the lessons that can be learned from Constellation. Constellation is/was NASA's program to implement a new generation of human exploration missions to the moon and beyond. It is/was a tightly-coupled program where a unique set of architectural challenges can be seen and evaluated to better understand how architecting of such systems can be improved upon in the future. While the specific issues discussed in this paper derive from the current Constellation architecture they share threads with previously-crewed systems including Apollo and Shuttle and are likely to be common to any human exploration system or system of significant technical and programmatic complexity.


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    Title :

    Lessons Learned in Architecting Human Spaceflight Programs


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Astronautical Congress ; 2010 ; Prague, Czechoslovakia


    Publication date :

    2010-09-27


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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