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Jason Turpin

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NASA’s Initial and Sustained Artemis Human Landing Systems

On March 26, 2019, in keeping with President Trump’s Space Policy Directive-1, Vice President Pence charged NASA with landing the first woman and the next man on the South Pole of the Moon by 2024, followed by a sustained presence on and around the Moon by 2028. NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) Program is responsible for the final mode of transportation in deep space that will carry humans to and from the surface of the Moon, to be designed and developed by American companies for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program. This paper examines the approach for Artemis human landing systems for both the initial missions and future sustained missions. While achieving the 2024 goal requires a focus on speed and the use of mature technologies, planning toward sustained operations to and from the lunar surface requires a focus on reliability and reusability. The two approaches, however, are not mutually exclusive, as demonstrated by the HLS prime contractors’ integrated lander system proposals. On April 30, 2020, NASA announced that Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, Dynetics (a Leidos company) of Huntsville, Alabama, and SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, were the awardees for NASA’s Human Landing System contracts under Appendix H of the NextSTEP-2 Broad Agency Announcement. The companies began work in a 10-month base period during which NASA teams worked with the companies to streamline the review of required products and to share the agency’s expertise in human spaceflight systems development. Following the base period, NASA will determine which company or companies will develop the human landers for the initial missions, including the 2024 landing, and which companies will develop landers for future sustained missions toward the end of the decade.

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NASA's Initial and Sustained Artemis Human Landing Systems

On March 26, 2019, in keeping with President Trump’s Space Policy Directive-1, Vice President Pence charged NASA with landing the first woman and the next man on the South Pole of the Moon by 2024, followed by a sustained presence on and around the Moon by2028. NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) Program is responsible for the final mode of transportation in deep space that will carry humans to and from the surface of the Moon, to be designed and developed by American companies for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program. This paper examines the approach for Artemis human landing systems for both the initial missions and future sustained missions. While achieving the 2024 goal requires a focus on speed and the use of mature technologies, planning toward sustained operations to and from the lunar surface requires a focus on reliability and reusability. The two approaches, however, are not mutually exclusive, as demonstrated by the HLS prime contractors’ integrated lander system proposals. On April 30, 2020, NASA announced that Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, Dynetics (a Leidos company) of Huntsville, Alabama, and SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, were the awardees for NASA’s Human Landing System contracts under Appendix H of the NextSTEP-2 Broad Agency Announcement. The companies began work in a 10-month base period during which NASA teams worked with the companies to streamline the review of required products and to share the agency’s expertise in human spaceflight systems development. Following the base period, NASA will determine which companies will develop the human landers for the initial missions, including the 2024 landing, and which companies will develop landers for future sustained missions toward the end of the decade.

Lisa Watson-Morgan↗
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NASA’s Artemis Human Landing Systems: Enabling Lunar Exploration

On March 26, 2019, in keeping with Space Policy Directive-1, NASA was charged with landing the first woman and the next man on the South Pole of the Moon by 2024, followed by a sustained presence on and around the Moon by 2028. NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) Program is responsible for the transportation in deep space to carry humans to and from the surface of the Moon, to be designed and developed by American companies for NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program. On April 30, 2020, NASA announced the awardees for NASA’s Human Landing System contracts under Appendix H of the NextSTEP-2 Broad Agency Announcement: A Blue Origin-led team including Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Draper; Dynetics (a Leidos company); and SpaceX. The companies began work in a multi-month base period during which NASA teams will work with the companies to streamline requirements, to establish standards and methods, to review required products and to share the NASA’s expertise in human spaceflight systems development. Following the base period, which ends in the spring of 2021, NASA will determine which company or companies will develop Artemis human landing systems for the initial demonstration missions, including the goal of landing on the Moon in 2024.This paper examines how the Human Landing System program is at the center of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, designed to yield groundbreaking science, develop and utilize lunar surface resources and leverage the Moon as a proving ground for future Mars missions. While achieving the 2024 goal requires a focus on speed and the use of mature technologies, planning toward sustained operations to and from the lunar surface requires a focus on reliability and reusability.

Lisa Watson-Morgan↗
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Integrated Development Strategy for Space Nuclear Propulsion

An integrated development strategy to realize operational nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) and nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) systems is presented. A generational development approach is employed, where each generation of a propulsion system is more capable and reliable than the previous. These systems will either enable missions that were not possible or, for missions that could be performed using other systems (including earlier generations of space nuclear systems) will improve the mission metrics, most notably greater delivered mass, reduced trip time, or longer mission endurance. Present and ongoing investments in materials development, component design and testing, and modeling and simulation lead the way in developing demonstration flight systems and expose gaps in the nation’s capabilities. Developing future generations of systems with greater utility will require additional capabilities, including those for large-scale nuclear test and evaluation.

Kurt Polzin↗