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Life Support Systems - Challenges for Lunar and Mars Human Exploration
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NASA's Office of Exploration depends on both robotic and human exploration system capabilities to support a rich set of lunar and Mars mission options.
Permanent operations on the lunar surface will demand high systems availability and low logistics. Mars human exploration missions require sustainable operations with no logistics except what has been forward deployed on earlier missions.
This paper will discuss the top-level mission requirements and the systems engineering issues for life support systems which must be addressed to support viable human exploration missions for lunar and Mars applications.
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Smith, W., "Life Support Systems - Challenges for Lunar and Mars Human Exploration," SAE Technical Paper 932031, 1993, https://doi.org/10.4271/932031.Also In
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- America at the Threshold Report of the Synthesis Group on America's Space Exploration Initiative U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC May 1991
- Augustine Norman R. Augustine's Laws and Major System Development Programs American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1982
- NASA's Systems Engineering Handbook PRELIMINARY DRAFT April 1992