Spacecraft of four representative but widely varying missions, one earth-orbital and one interplanetary each in mid-1970 and mid-1980 time periods, are examined; maintenance analyses of subsystems and components, vehicle configuration optimizations; and statistical results of several hundred mission simulations are described and evaluated; effects of hardware reliability and failure rates, skills, environmental factors, mission durations and resupply potential, and various resources are considered; tables, charts, and graphs summarizing analytical results and displaying parametric sensitivities are provided; gross cost estimates are included. (17101)


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    Title :

    Maintainability of manned spacecraft for long-duration flights


    Additional title:

    NASA CR


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1968


    Size :

    50 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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