Re: Stick/CEV Propulsion News

In article <434573f6.27380378@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Derek Lyons <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>One obvious answer is: maintenance. During the lunar day, you focus on
>>getting stuff done; during the lunar night, you fix all the things that
>>got broken getting stuff done.
>
>Means a fair amount of weight/volume for tools, parts, etc... etc...
>Not to mention training time.

However, if you're going to do long-term operations up there, you really
don't have much choice. Given the dust and the other conditions, that's
inevitably going to be a high-maintenance environment. If you don't
budget mass, volume, and training time for maintenance, you have to accept
that many pieces of equipment (including vehicles and spacesuits) are
expendables with quite short working lives, and you must budget mass and
volume for extra copies of everything.
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