To achieve its long-term goal of sending humans to Mars, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to proceed in a series of incrementally more complex human spaceflight missions. Today, human flight experience extends only to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), and should problems arise during a mission, the crew can return to Earth in a matter of minutes to hours. The next logical step for human spaceflight is to gain flight experience in the vicinity of the Moon. These cis-lunar missions provide a "proving ground" for the testing of systems and operations while still accommodating an emergency return path to the Earth that would last only several days. Cis-lunar mission experience will be essential for more ambitious human missions beyond the Earth- Moon system, which will require weeks, months, or even years of transit time.


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    Title :

    The Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Lunar and Planeatary Science Conference ; 2016 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-03-21


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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