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Technology for Human Self-Sufficiency in Space
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Strategic planning for human space exploration early in the 21st century has addressed two major missions - a lunar outpost/base and a piloted Mars mission. Such missions into the space environment, lasting perhaps 1–3 years, will impose unprecedented conditions on providing for human sustenance, well-being, and performance. The conditions may be categorized as: significantly increased time away from earth, unaccustomed risk and environmental stress, and an unrelieved, total dependence on advanced technological systems. A program approach, embodied in the Humans-in-Space thrust of the proposed Project Pathfinder, is described that would determine the critical human and technology requirements and develop the enabling technologies for human self-sufficiency and productivity on these missions.
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Anderson, J., "Technology for Human Self-Sufficiency in Space," SAE Technical Paper 881013, 1988, https://doi.org/10.4271/881013.Also In
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