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A Modest Proposal: The Use of the International Space Station as the Crew Exploration Vehicle
Technical Paper
2006-01-2066
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A vehicle capable of transferring human crews, modules, rovers, and logistics to and from the moon already exists; it is the International Space Station (ISS). The Station’s orbit can be modified to include the moon at one focus and Earth at the other. At that point, ISS will stay in Earth-moon orbit indefinitely. Exploration crews will ride ISS to the moon where they will drop to the surface or remain in lunar orbit. Robotic explorers and surface and logistics modules will be transported to the moon the same way, while samples will be returned to Earth by the reverse process.
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Dischinger, H., "A Modest Proposal: The Use of the International Space Station as the Crew Exploration Vehicle," SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-2066, 2006, https://doi.org/10.4271/2006-01-2066.Also In
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- 2004 Speech by the President, 14 January and NASA document The Vision For Space Exploration February
- 2005 NASA’s Exploration Systems Architecture Study
- 1998 1 International Space Station On-Orbit Assembly, Modeling, and Mass Properties Data Book
- 2004 ISS Assembly Sequence Mass & Volume Assessment
- 1988 National Space Transportation System Reference 1 Systems and Facilities