LOLA: The lunar operations landing assembly

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May 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992stin...9318038a&link_type=abstract

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Lunar Landing, Lunar Landing Modules, Manned Mars Missions, Space Exploration, Spacecraft Design, Spacecraft Launching, University Program, Attitude Control, Orbit Calculation, Propulsion System Configurations, Telecommunication, Temperature Control

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Because the President of the United States has begun the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI), which entails a manned mission to Mars by the year 2016, it is necessary to use the Moon as a stepping stone to this objective. In support of this mission, unmanned scientific exploration of the Moon will help re-establish man's presence there and will serve as a basis for possible lunar colonization, setting the stage for a manned Mars mission. The lunar landing platform must provide support to its payload in the form of power, communications, and thermal control. The design must be such that cost is held to a minimum, and so that a wide variety of payloads may be used with the lander. The objectives of this mission are (1) to further the SEI by returning to the moon with unmanned scientific experiments, (2) to demonstrate to the public that experimental payload missions are feasible, (3) to provide a common lunar lander platform so select scientific packages could be targeted to specific lunar locales, (4) to enable the lander to be built from off-the-shelf hardware, and (5) to provide first mission launch by 1996.

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