Abstract: The design process required for a lunar base observatory is considered. An observatory on the moon with significant capability could be operational by the year 2015. Astronomical observations from a lunar base will require ...

Abstract: Robotic missions to Mars are listed and significant results of each past mission related to soil engineering are noted. What is known of the Mars environment and surface features that may be of interest to the engineer is ...

Abstract: This paper highlights technology development for space exploration. It draws on the proceedings of Space 88, Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, which includes 125 papers and 1,349 pages providing in‐depth ...

Abstract: Many of the launch systems that are used by the United States to send payloads to orbit trace their heritage to military systems of the 1950s and 1960s. Even with launch systems built on more recent technology, the cost ...

Abstract: A number of engineers and constructors have been looking at the engineering analyses and syntheses associated with preparations for the establishment of a base on the Moon and human flight to Mars. This paper discusses the ...

Abstract: Knowledge of the lunar regolith is essential to success in lunar missions whether crewed or robotic. The regolith is the loose material overlying more intact strata on the Moon. It varies in ...

Abstract: Some astronomers are considering the moon as an attractive location within the inner solar system for a variety of astronomical observatories, some of which could be operational early in the 21st century. This paper describes ...

Abstract: Lunar-based astronomy requires structures that provide the required stiffness, strength, and dimensional stability in the challenging lunar vacuum, thermal, radiation, micrometeorite, secondary ejecta, ...