Element Formulation Process for the Moon and Mars
- Paper number
IAC-21,A5,1,18,x66690
- Author
Mr. Doug Craig, United States, NASA
- Coauthor
Mr. Travis Ashurst, United States, NASA
- Coauthor
Dr. Greg Chavers, United States, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- Coauthor
Mrs. Kandyce Goodliff, United States, NASA
- Coauthor
Ms. Erin Mahoney, United States, Stardog Union
- Coauthor
Ms. Allison Taylor, United States, The Aerospace Corporation
- Year
2021
- Abstract
NASA’s Artemis program is underway with secured contracts and hardware for initial lunar infrastructure elements. The element formulation process—which has resulted in multiple contracts with U.S. industry and agreements with international partners for the lunar-orbiting Gateway—includes early concept maturation, prototyping, modeling and simulation, and human-in-the-loop testing on Earth. As the concepts mature, the process advances to data exchanges and opportunity discussions with industry and international partners, and innovative acquisition approaches that lead to contracts, partnerships, or other agreements, and the establishment of a program office within NASA. NASA’s Moon-to-Mars architecture element formulation process is ongoing with a look forward to additional elements on the surface as part of the Artemis Base Camp, including unpressurized and pressurized lunar rovers, a surface habitat, a large cargo lander, as well as a Mars transit habitation module to dock with the Gateway in lunar orbit. Many of these elements are formulated to support multiple human destinations, and as much as is possible, will be designed for both the Moon and Mars. The formulation team is responsible for many of the current lunar elements in work and maturation of the future Mars conceptual elements. . This paper will discuss the element formulation process, with a look at current concepts in formulation, and how many of the individual elements, as well as the human-robotic operational protocols inherently attached to them, will be designed to support human missions to the Moon and Mars.
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