# Presentation: 499480

## Constellation

- Status of NASA Human Lunar Return Planning

##   Complete the International Space Station

-   Complete the International Space Station
-   Safely fly the space shuttle until 2010
-   Develop and fly the Orion crew exploration
-     vehicle no later than 2015
-   Return to the moon no later than 2020
-   Extend human presence across the
-     solar system and beyond
-   Implement a sustained and affordable human
-     and robotic program
-   Develop supporting innovative technologies,
-     knowledge, and infrastructures
-   Promote international and commercial
-     participation in exploration

##   Use the moon to prepare for future human and 

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-   Use the moon to prepare for future human and
-     robotic missions to Mars and other destinations
-   Pursue scientific activities to address fundamental
-     questions about the solar system, the universe,
-     and our place in them
-   Extend sustained human presence to the moon
-     to enable eventual settlement
-   Expand Earth’s economic sphere to encompass
-     the moon and pursue lunar activities with direct
-     benefits to life on Earth
-   Strengthen existing and create
-     new global partnerships
-   Engage, inspire, and educate the public

## Systems of the Constellation Program

- Initial Capability

**Ares I**

**Ground Operations**

**Mission Operations**

**EVA**

- Lunar Capability

**Ares V**

**EVA**

**Altair**

**Lunar Surface**

## NASA’s Exploration Roadmap

**Lunar Outpost Buildup**

**Commercial Orbital Transportation Services for ISS**

**Ares I and Orion  Development**

**Altair Lunar Lander Development**

**Surface Systems Development**

**Ares V and Earth Departure Stage**

**Exploration and Science Lunar Robotics Missions**

**Operations Capability Development**
**(EVA Systems, Ground Operations, Mission Operations)**

**Orion and Ares I Production and Operation**

**Research and Technology Development on ISS for Risk Reduction**

**Space Shuttle Operations**

***Initial Capability***

***Lunar Capability***

## Space Shuttle

**Space Shuttle**

**Ares I**

**Ares V**

**Saturn V**

**Height:  56m**
**Gross Liftoff Mass:  2040Mt**
- 25Mt to LEO

**Height:  98m**
**Gross Liftoff Mass:  910Mt**
- 22Mt to LEO

**Height:  109m**
**Gross Liftoff Mass:  3310Mt**
- 53Mt to TLI
- 65Mt to TLI in Dual-
- Launch Mode with Ares I
- 131Mt to LEO

**Height:  111m**
**Gross Liftoff Mass:  2950Mt**
- 45Mt to TLI
- 119Mt to LEO

**Upper Stage**
**(1 J-2X)**
- 127Mt LOx/LH**2**

**Lunar**
**Lander**

**Earth Departure**
**Stage (EDS) (1 J-2X)**
- 226Mt lb LOx/LH2

**Core Stage**
**(5 RS-68 Engines)**
- 1410Mt LOx/LH2

**5-Segment**
**2 RSRB’s**

**Crew**

**Lander**

**S-IVB**
**(1 J-2 engine)**
- 110Mt Lox/LH2

**S-II**
**(5 J-2 engines)**
- 450Mt LOx/LH2

**S-IC**
**(5 F-1)**
- 1770Mt LOx/RP

## Slide 7

##   Serves as the long term crew   

-   Serves as the long term crew
-     launch capability for the U.S.
-   5 segment shuttle-derived
-     solid rocket booster
-   New liquid oxygen /
-     liquid hydrogen upper stage
-     using J-2X engine
-   Launch Abort System

**Launch Abort System**

**Orion **
**(crew module / service module)**

**Upper Stage**

**Interstage**

**First Stage**
**(5 segment **
** ****Solid Rocket Booster)**

**J-2X Engine**

- Ares I-X is a development test flight to support Ares I
- Ares I-X is the first flight of NASA’s new Constellation Program
- Ares I-X is an uncrewed, sub-orbital development flight test
- Ares I-X will provide opportunity to test ground facilities and operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
- Ares I-X is on track for a 2009 launch date

**Ares I-X Crew Launch Vehicle Test**

##   Designed to operate for up to 210 days 

-   Designed to operate for up to 210 days
-     in Earth or lunar orbit
-   Separate crew and service modules
-   Vehicle designed for lunar mission with
-     4 crewmembers
-   Can accommodate up to 6 crewmembers
-     for Mars and space station missions
-   Potential to deliver pressurized and
-     unpressurized cargo to space station

- Orion will support both moon
- and space station missions

##   Transport up to 6

-   Transport up to 6
-     crewmembers on Orion
-     for crew rotation
-   210  day stay time
-   Emergency lifeboat for
-     entire ISS crew
-   Deliver pressurized cargo
-     for ISS resupply

##   Two 5.5-segment solid rocket boosters

**Composite Shroud**

**Lunar Lander**

**Earth Departure Stage (EDS)**

**Interstage**

**Core Stage**
**(5.5 Segment **
** ****2 Solid Rocket Boosters)**

**J-2X Engine**

-   Two 5.5-segment solid rocket boosters
-   Liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen core stage
-         - Commercial heritage RS-68 main engines
-   Liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen earth departure stage
-   Payload capability:
-         - 10m payload shroud
-           - 187 metric tons to low Earth orbit
-           - 71 metric tons trans-lunar injection
-             capability with Altair and Orion

##   Transport 4 crewmembers

-   Transport 4 crewmembers
-     to and from the surface
-         - Visits start with 7 days on surface
-         - Length of stays increases step-by-step
-         - Builds up to 6 month lunar outpost
-           crew rotations
-   Global access capability
-   Return to Earth anytime
-   Deliver about 16 metric tons of
-     dedicated cargo
-   Provide airlock for surface activities
-   Descent stage:
-         - Liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen propulsion
-   Ascent stage:
-         - Storable propellants

##   LCCR conducted in June 2008

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-   LCCR conducted in June 2008
-   Demonstrated lunar transportation architecture has the performance to meet expected lunar exploration requirements
-   Enable science of and from the moon
-   Learn to live and work on planetary surface
-    Identified “Point of Departure” configuration for Ares V and Altair
-   Informed by representative lunar surface system scenarios

## Near Side

**Near Side**

**Far Side**

**Aristarchus Plateau**

**Rima Bode**

**Mare Tranquillitatis**

**Mare Smythii**

**Oceanus**
**Procellarum**

**Central Farside**
**Highlands**

**South Pole – Aitken Basin**
**Floor**

**Orientale Basin**
**Floor**

**North Pole**

**South Pole**

**1**

**3**

**6**

**5**

**7**

**9**

**13**

**17**

**3**

**21**

**24**

**20**

**16**

**12**

**14**

**16**

**11**

**17**

**15**

##   The lunar South Pole is a likely 

-   The lunar South Pole is a likely
-     candidate for an outpost site
-   Several areas with greater than
-     80% sunlight and less extreme
-     temperature swings
-   Elevated quantities of hydrogen,
-     possibly water ice in permanently
-     shadowed craters
-   Step-by-step outpost construction:
-         - Power system
-         - Communications/navigation
-         - Habitat
-         - Rovers

**ALTAIR**

##   Regaining and extending

-   Regaining and extending
-     operational experience in a hostile
-     planetary environment
-   Developing capabilities needed for
-     opening the space frontier
-   Preparing for human exploration
-     of Mars
-   Science operations and discovery

## Slide 19

## Slide 20

## MOON

**MOON**

**EARTH**

*Vehicles are not to scale*

*100 km*
*Low Lunar*
*Orbit*

*Low*
*Earth*
*Orbit*

*Lunar Lander Performs*
*Lunar Orbit Insertion*

*Earth Departure*
*Stage (EDS)*
*Expended*

*Service*
*Module*
*Expended*

*Ascent Stage*
*Expended*

*Entry and*
*Landing*

*EDS, Lunar Lander*

*Orion*

## Ares Progress

**Ares**** Progress**

- Ares Wind Tunnel TestEngineers at Ames Research Center, CA test a 4% Ares model

## Orion Progress

**Orion**** Progress**

- Abort Motor Subscale Testing

- Jettison Motor Full Scale Test

- Attitude Control  Motor HT-5 Testing

## Landing System Airbag Tests

**Orion**** Progress**

## Orion Progress

**Orion**** Progress**

- Parachute System Level Demonstration Testing

- Composite Structural Adapter Cone

- Thermal Protection System

## Orion Progress

**Orion**** Progress**

- Crew Module Boilerplate Test Article – Entering Structural Testing at Langley Research Center

- After Painting at Dryden Flight Research Center

## Ares V Progress

**Ares V**** Progress**

- Ares V RS-68 Engine Injector Test