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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==
==Reusable Nuclear Shuttle==
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* [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/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/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/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/19710018204_1971018204.pdf Nuclear flight system definition study, phase III. Volume 5 - Schedules, milestones and networks Final report]
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* 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
* John C. Lindholm (Editor), ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710005036_1971005036.pdf Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE)], September 1970
* ''[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/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/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/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  
* ''[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
* ''[http://altairvi.blogspot.com/2008/03/integrated-manned-space-flight-program.html Altair VI, Integrated Manned Space Flight Program, March 14, 2008]''
* 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)]''


[[Category:Fictional spacecraft]]
[[Category:Fictional spacecraft]]

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.

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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.

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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.

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References

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