Re: Stick/CEV Propulsion News

On 4 Oct 2005 13:17:38 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Allen
Thomson" <thomsona@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

>
>Pat Flannery wrote:
>
>> Speaking of that mission duration, what exactly are the astronauts
>> supposed to do during the lunar night?
>
>That is a subset of a larger question: What are the astronauts supposed
>to do on the moon? One-week expeditions can do Apollo-style
>geology(*). After that, "what else" starts to come up.

Yes, a question that should have driven the architecture. The
contractors attempted to do this. NASA apparently didn't think they
had to bother.

>Which in turn leads to other questions. Once one has decided "what",
>the next one is "how". "How much will it cost" comes after that.

Yes, but NASA has done it bassackwards. They've figured out how
they're going to get people there first, and not worrying about what
they'll actually do there until much later.
.

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