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Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002iaf..confe.716c&link_type=abstract
IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
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This paper presents an overview of selected approaches to Lunar Architecture to describe the parameters of this design problem space. The paper identifies typologies of architecture based on Lunar site features, structural concepts and habitable functions. This paper develops an analysis of these architectures based on the NASA Habitats and Surface Construction Road Map (1997) in which there are three major types of surface construction: Class I) Preintegrated, Class 2) Assembled, Deployed, Erected or Inflated, and Class 3) Use of In Situ materials and site characteristics. Class 1 Architectures include the following. The Apollo Program was intended to extend to landing a 14 day base in enhanced Lunar Excursion Modules. The Air Force was the first to propose preintegrated cylindrical modules landed on the Lunar surface. The University of Wisconsin proposed building a module and hub system on the surface. Madhu Thangavelu proposed assembling such a module and hub base in orbit and then landing it intact on the moon . Class 2 Architectures include: The NASA 90 Day Study proposed an inflatable sphere of about 20m diameter for a lunar habitat. Jenine Abarbanel of Colorado State University proposed rectangular inflatable habitats, with lunar regolith as ballast on the flat top. Class 3 Architectures include: William Simon proposed a lunar base bored into a crater rim. Alice Eichold proposed a base within a crater ring. The paper presents a comparative characterization and analysis of these and other examples paradigms of proposed Lunar construction. It evaluates bath the architectures and the NASA Habitats and Surface Construction Road Map for how well they correlate to one another
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