02-17-2017, 11:08 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Needville and Shiner, TX
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1. Arrangement of the crew in the 5% upscaled Apollo-shaped Earth return capsule... crew of 4.
2. The ERV blasts off from the Moon...
3. the manned lunar lander
4. the unmanned lander/hab where the crew will stay for their 45 day mission on the surface
5. the manned lander on the surface, equipped with ladders and stairs for disembarkation/return
6. surface stay mission timeline...
7. lunar hab/lander stowed configuration...
8. lunar hab/lander config deployed on the lunar surface...
9. reference launch vehicles-- one Saturn derived (resurrected Saturn V) and one NLS derived
(use shuttle technology). INTERESTINGLY BOTH planned to dump the SRB's and go with F-1A
powered kerosene boosters... Something that SLS SHOULD have done.
10. lunar mission profile...
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