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When Apollo 17 left the moon, on the descent module was a plaque that read ''Here Man completed his first explorations of the moon. December 1972 AD. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind.''  
When Apollo 17 left the moon, on the descent module was a plaque that read ''Here Man completed his first explorations of the moon. December 1972 AD. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind.''  


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[[Image:PhaseB.jpg|center|NASAs Integrated Post-Apollo Program]]
[[Image:PhaseB.jpg|center|NASAs Integrated Post-Apollo Program]]


==Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer==
[[Image:MULE01.png|thumb|right|Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer]]
[[Image:MULE07.png|thumb|right|Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer, used to prepare the site of a [[Moonbases|moonbase]]]]
[[Image:MULE08.png|thumb|right|Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer, used a supply carrier]]
Proposed by members of a Systems Engineering course, the Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE) was a two man, tracked vehicle capable of performing a variety of tasks as part of the 1980's Post-Apollo program.
See:
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710005036_1971005036.pdf Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE)]
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==Reusable Nuclear Shuttle==
[[Image:9902064.jpg|thumb|right|Reusable Nuclear Shuttle]]
[[Image:RNS-Launch.png|thumb|right|Proposed method of launching the RNS into orbit using the Space Shuttle and an INT-21]]
One of the 'backbones' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Reusable Nuclear Shuttle(RNS), a [[w:NERVA|NERVA]] based propulsion stage that could be used either to shuttle cargo between Earth and Moon, or to send men to Mars and Venus.
They were to be launched into orbit either by using a Space Shuttle and Saturn INT-21 to send it up as separate components. The Space Shuttle would have carried the engine up into orbit to be mated with fuel tanks launched earlier by a Saturn INT-21.
See:
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018484_1971018484.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 1 Executive Summary]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068980_1977068980.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070117_1977070117.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070118_1977070118.pdf Nuclear shuttle system definition study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Class 3 RNS. Book 1 System analysis & definition]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068978_1977068978.pdf Nuclear shuttle system definition study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Class 3 RNS. Book 2 System definition]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710017290_1971017290.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Baseline system definition, Final report]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018204_1971018204.pdf Nuclear flight system definition study, phase III. Volume 5 - Schedules, milestones and networks Final report]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018486_1971018486.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 7 - RNS project requirements]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710071170_1971071170.pdf Reusable nuclear stage advanced structures study Quarterly report, 26 Jul. - 25 Oct. 1971]
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==Space Shuttle (McDonnell-Douglas: ILRVS)==
[[Image:ILRVS-Carrier.png|thumb|right|ILRVS Booster Stage]]
[[Image:ILRVS-Orbiter.png|thumb|right|ILRVS Orbiter Stage]]
[[Image:ILRVS-Orbital Flight Profile.png|thumb|right|ILRVS Typical Flight Profile]]
Another 'backbone' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Space Shuttle, a fully or parially reusable spacecraft designed to carry men and equipment to the various low Earth orbit spacestations that would be built as the program got under way.
Several different designs were considered before settling on the one currently being phased out. One such design was one proposed by McDonnell Douglas in which an enlarged HL-10 lifing body would be used to carry a 11,000kg (25,000lb), 4.6m(15ft) by 9.1m (30ft) payload into an orbit with a maximum altitude of 500km (270nm).
Called the Integrated Launch and Reentry Vehicle System (ILRVS), the shuttle and its two man crew would have been launched into orbit using a manned booster stage.
See:
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005908_1970005908.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Executive Summary Report]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005884_1970005884.pdf Integral Launch And Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 1, Configuration Design and Subsystems. Bk. 1]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005887_1970005887.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 2, Performance, Aerodynamics, Mission and Operations.]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700022513_1970022513.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 2, Technology Identification Final Report]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005886_1970005886.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System Vol. 3, Plans, Costs, Schedules, Technologies.]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740077882_1974077882.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System Vol. 4, One and a half stage configurations.]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19850069282_1985069282.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Final Oral Report]
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==References==
==References==
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* Boeing, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19680009778_1968009778.pdf Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.6, Cost Effective Subsystem Selection & Evolutionary Development]'', January, 1968
* Boeing, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19680009778_1968009778.pdf Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.6, Cost Effective Subsystem Selection & Evolutionary Development]'', January, 1968
* J.P. Downs, W.B Thompson, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072308_1979072308.pdf A Feasible Planetary Exploration Program Through 1980]'', February 26, 1968
* J.P. Downs, W.B Thompson, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072308_1979072308.pdf A Feasible Planetary Exploration Program Through 1980]'', February 26, 1968
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005908_1970005908.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Executive Summary Report]'', 1969
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005884_1970005884.pdf Integral Launch And Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 1, Configuration Design and Subsystems. Bk. 1]'', 1969
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005887_1970005887.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 2, Performance, Aerodynamics, Mission and Operations.]'', 1969
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700022513_1970022513.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 2, Technology Identification Final Report]'', 1969
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700005886_1970005886.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System Vol. 3, Plans, Costs, Schedules, Technologies.]'', 1969
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740077882_1974077882.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System Vol. 4, One and a half stage configurations.]
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19850069282_1985069282.pdf Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Final Oral Report]'', 1969
* A.E. Marks ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790073069_1979073069.pdf Rationale for selection of a 50000 pound propulsion module in an integrated manned space flight program]'', July 7, 1969
* A.E. Marks ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790073069_1979073069.pdf Rationale for selection of a 50000 pound propulsion module in an integrated manned space flight program]'', July 7, 1969
* W.B. Thompson, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072138_1979072138.pdf Integrated Space Program: Manned Planetary Missions for the 1980's]'', August 6, 1969
* W.B. Thompson, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072138_1979072138.pdf Integrated Space Program: Manned Planetary Missions for the 1980's]'', August 6, 1969
* E.M. Grenning ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072327_1979072327.pdf Integrated manned space flight program traffic model]'', June 4, 1970
* E.M. Grenning ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072327_1979072327.pdf Integrated manned space flight program traffic model]'', June 4, 1970
* T.H. Sharpe, G. Von Tiesenhausen, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700026519_1970026519.pdf Space flight evolution]'', June 30, 1970
* T.H. Sharpe, G. Von Tiesenhausen, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700026519_1970026519.pdf Space flight evolution]'', June 30, 1970
* North American/Rockwell, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710016382_1971016382.pdf Lunar Base Synthesis Study Final Report Vol.2, Mission Analysis and Lunar Base Synthesis]'', May 15, 1971
* John C. Lindholm (Editor), ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710005036_1971005036.pdf Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE)], September 1970
* North American/Rockwell, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710016384_1971016384.pdf Lunar Base Synthesis Study Final Report Vol.3, Shelter Design]'', May 15, 1971
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018484_1971018484.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 1 Executive Summary]'', May 1, 1971
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068980_1977068980.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations]'', May 1, 1971
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070117_1977070117.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition]'', May 1, 1971
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018486_1971018486.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 7 - RNS project requirements]'', May 1, 1971
* R.E. Bradie, J.P.B Cuffe, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740008376_1974008376.pdf Advanced Space Engine, Preliminary Design]'', December 1, 1973
* ''[http://beyondapollo.blogspot.com/2011/01/nasas-report-to-space-task-group-1969.html Beyond Apollo, NASA's report to the Space Task Group (1969)]''


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Latest revision as of 00:14, 26 July 2011

When Apollo 17 left the moon, on the descent module was a plaque that read Here Man completed his first explorations of the moon. December 1972 AD. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind.

But what were his next explorations to be like...

NASAs Integrated Post-Apollo Program
NASAs Integrated Post-Apollo Program

Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer

Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer
Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer, used to prepare the site of a moonbase
Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer, used a supply carrier

Proposed by members of a Systems Engineering course, the Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE) was a two man, tracked vehicle capable of performing a variety of tasks as part of the 1980's Post-Apollo program.

See:


Reusable Nuclear Shuttle

Reusable Nuclear Shuttle
Proposed method of launching the RNS into orbit using the Space Shuttle and an INT-21

One of the 'backbones' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Reusable Nuclear Shuttle(RNS), a NERVA based propulsion stage that could be used either to shuttle cargo between Earth and Moon, or to send men to Mars and Venus.

They were to be launched into orbit either by using a Space Shuttle and Saturn INT-21 to send it up as separate components. The Space Shuttle would have carried the engine up into orbit to be mated with fuel tanks launched earlier by a Saturn INT-21.

See:


Space Shuttle (McDonnell-Douglas: ILRVS)

ILRVS Booster Stage
ILRVS Orbiter Stage
ILRVS Typical Flight Profile

Another 'backbone' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Space Shuttle, a fully or parially reusable spacecraft designed to carry men and equipment to the various low Earth orbit spacestations that would be built as the program got under way.

Several different designs were considered before settling on the one currently being phased out. One such design was one proposed by McDonnell Douglas in which an enlarged HL-10 lifing body would be used to carry a 11,000kg (25,000lb), 4.6m(15ft) by 9.1m (30ft) payload into an orbit with a maximum altitude of 500km (270nm).

Called the Integrated Launch and Reentry Vehicle System (ILRVS), the shuttle and its two man crew would have been launched into orbit using a manned booster stage.

See:


References

Here are a selection of documents with information on the Integrated Manned Programme:

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