Location
Cocoa Beach, FL
Start Date
5-4-1965 8:00 AM
Description
This paper presents two unique personnel shelter systems. When functioning either alone or with MOLAB, they will provide the capability for maintaining 2 or 3 astronauts on the lunar surface for a duration of 30 to 44 Earth days with a stay-time growth potential of 90 days. These shelters offer the United States Lunar Exploration Program the operational flexibility and number of man-days on the Moon required to accomplish a wide range of necessary exploration and scientific missions, including a capability to maintain and repair the LEM, MOLAB, and the shelters themselves. An additional feature of the system is that a Lunar Roving Vehicle or a Lunar Observatory as well as a Shelter can be transported on the LEM truck in a single flight to the lunar surface by the Saturn V transportation system. Further, the shelter system concept optimizes the systems approach to lurtar exploration in terms of timeliness, operational flexibility, growth potential, and return on the Apollo investment.
Apollo Exploration Shelter System
Cocoa Beach, FL
This paper presents two unique personnel shelter systems. When functioning either alone or with MOLAB, they will provide the capability for maintaining 2 or 3 astronauts on the lunar surface for a duration of 30 to 44 Earth days with a stay-time growth potential of 90 days. These shelters offer the United States Lunar Exploration Program the operational flexibility and number of man-days on the Moon required to accomplish a wide range of necessary exploration and scientific missions, including a capability to maintain and repair the LEM, MOLAB, and the shelters themselves. An additional feature of the system is that a Lunar Roving Vehicle or a Lunar Observatory as well as a Shelter can be transported on the LEM truck in a single flight to the lunar surface by the Saturn V transportation system. Further, the shelter system concept optimizes the systems approach to lurtar exploration in terms of timeliness, operational flexibility, growth potential, and return on the Apollo investment.
