Two lunar shelter concepts, RigidShelter and Combined Rigid/ Expandable Shelter, are presented; when functioning alone or with Mobile Lunar Laboratory (MOLAR), shelters provide capability for maintaining two or three astronauts on Moon for 30 to 44 Earth days with stay-time growth of 90 days; feature of system is that Lunar Roving Vehicle or Lunar Observatory and shelter can be transported on LEM truck in single flight to Moon by Saturn V transportation system; shelter system concept optimizes systems approach to lunar exploration in terms of timeliness, operational flexibility, growth potential and return on Apollo investment.
Apollo exploration shelter system
Canaveral Council Tech Soc -- Space Congress -- Proc
Proceedings of the 2nd Canaveral Council Technical Society -- Space Congress ; 1965 Bases
1965
19 pages
Conference paper
English
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