Since its origination under NASA's previous Human System Research and Technology program, the Lunar Simulant Development Program has undergone several changes. NASA recognized as early as the Apollo Program, and even more so as a result of the Apollo missions, that a viable dust and lunar simulant program is critical to the success of its space exploration goals. Unfortunately, this program has suffered the same problems that all programs share from time to time including uncertain budgets, shifting of priorities, and schedule fluctuations. To compound the problem, the process for developing simulants is being redefined and is not a trivial pursuit. Before now, NASA had not attempted to develop a suitable standard simulant since the 1990s when JSC-1 was produced. Although several other simulants have been developed by various groups both before and after the production of JSC-1, JSC-1 had become the de facto standard even though it has some limitations. The development and production of new simulants will address some of these limitations by starting with an assessment of NASA's needs and understanding the required processing in order to make these simulants.


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    Titel :

    NASA'S Simulant Development Program Evolution and Overview


    Beteiligte:
    McLemore, Carole (Autor:in) / Fikes, John (Autor:in) / Owens, Charles (Autor:in) / Rickman, Doug (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Planetary and Mining Science Symposium Northern Centre for Advanced Technology, Inc. ; 2007 ; Ontario, Canada


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007-06-10


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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