Start Date
25-4-1989 4:00 PM
Description
This paper, Manned Industrial Space Soonest, received its title as a take-off on the acronym MISS which stood for Man In Space Soonest. The new generation in space will be primarily concerned with development instead of exploration. We must reconsider our preconceived ideas. For instance, expendable versus reusable spacecraft does not have to mean nonreusable versus reusable launch vehicles. Reusable does not have to connote reentry, recovery, refurbish and refly. A vehicle can be designed or even modified from a conventional expendable to launch a space station or platform in a single flight and even supply a space glider to serve as an emergency lifeboat or to return materials processed in space.
Paper Session I-C - Manned Industrial Space Soonest
This paper, Manned Industrial Space Soonest, received its title as a take-off on the acronym MISS which stood for Man In Space Soonest. The new generation in space will be primarily concerned with development instead of exploration. We must reconsider our preconceived ideas. For instance, expendable versus reusable spacecraft does not have to mean nonreusable versus reusable launch vehicles. Reusable does not have to connote reentry, recovery, refurbish and refly. A vehicle can be designed or even modified from a conventional expendable to launch a space station or platform in a single flight and even supply a space glider to serve as an emergency lifeboat or to return materials processed in space.
Comments
Space Enterprise Development
Session Chairman: Chick Garcia, Manager, Grumman Corporate Development, Titusville, FL
Session Organizer: Bob Mellor, Lockheed Space Operations Co., KSC, FL