NTR-Enhanced Lunar-Base Supply using Existing Launch Fleet Capabilities
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During the summer of 2006, students at the Center for Space Nuclear Research sought to augment the current NASA lunar exploration architecture with a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR). An additional study investigated the possible use of an NTR with existing launch vehicles to provide 21 metric tons of supplies to the lunar surface in support of a lunar outpost. Current cost estimates show that the complete mission cost for an NTR-enhanced assembly of Delta-IV and Atlas V vehicles may cost 47-86% mo…
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Date:
June 1, 2009
Creator:
Bess, John D.; Colvin, Emily & Cummings, Paul G.
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