Human Service Mission To The International Lunar Observatories

spacedaily.com ^ | 07/25/05

[KevinDavis]

SpaceDev has been awarded a small contract by Lunar Enterprise Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Space Age Publishing Company to perform the work necessary to create a conceptual mission architecture and mission design for a human servicing mission to the Lunar south pole targeted for the period of 2010 to 2015.

The length of stay on the Moon will be seven or more days, depending on cost, practicality and other trade-offs.

The study will explore existing technology, technology currently under development, and proposed technology that could be developed by NASA, other countries or the private sector in time to be incorporated into the mission.

[KevinDavis]

Time to invest in SpaceDev

[KevinDavis]

[cripplecreek]

Being disabled causes me to wonder if space will open the workforce to people with similar disabilities. In my case I can walk but can't support myself for long periods without a crutch or cane. Seems that a low grav environment would be just the trick for getting me mobile.

[KevinDavis]

That is correct. One the moon you will 6/10 of your weight on Earth...

[Shawndell Green]

What is Mark Styen's view of Roberts? Has he written a column about the appointment yet? So far, Mark has been the most consistently correct predictor in politics, as far as I remember. He was definitely the only one who called the election correctly and who also had the nerve to say that if he were wrong, that he would stop writing about politics. That is putting your money where your mouth is.

[Shawndell Green]

Mark Steyn

[RightWhale]

That would be correct. Space exploration needs judgement rather than physical mobility. On a planet such as Mars everybody will ride their buggies everywhere. In free-fall orbit everybody is either strapped to their seats or jetting around in spacesuits.

[KevinDavis]

Dude, read the title.....

[cripplecreek]

I know I'm thinking a long way down the road but the burdens of caring for and supporting disabled people could largely elininated by getting them to work in space industry.

[hadit2here]

That is correct. One the moon you will 6/10 of your weight on Earth...

Ummm, I think you mean on the moon, you will weight 1/6th of your Earth weight... slight difference there.

For example: if you weight 200 lbs on Earth, you would weight approx. 33 lbs on the moon.

That's a little different than 60% x 200 = 120 lbs.

But you had the right numbers, just on the "wrong" sides of the "/"... [grin]

At least that's what I recomember from all my science fiction reading days.

[RadioAstronomer]

I was involved in this type of study (funded by NASA) back in the late 80s. I still have the reports/papers buried in my files. Should go dig em out again.

[RadioAstronomer]

Seems that a low grav environment would be just the trick for getting me mobile.

Absolutely! Especially if your suit was designed for the proper support where you need it.

[RadioAstronomer]

Yuppers. 1/6^th. :-)