Dutch Von Ehrenfried has worked in both the space flight and aviation fields for about 25 years. He was a NASA Flight Controller in Mission Control for many Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Missions. Dutch also worked on some of the Apollo Lunar Experiment Packages from an operations point of view as well as experiments that went into Skylab from an Earth Resources Program perspective. He later worked in the NASA Headquarters Space Station Task Force and the Program Office as a contractor for about 10 years, and the FAA Aviation Safety Office for a year. In recent years he has written several insightful books in the Springer-Praxis series.

Frontispiece

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 Introduction

2 The Artemis Lunar Program Overview

2.1 NASA's Concept

2.2 Summary of the Elements

2.3 The Controversy

2.4 The Budget

2.5 Politics

3 Spacecraft, Landers, Rovers and Payloads

3.2 Commercial Lunar Payload Services

3.3 Commercial Payloads and Instruments

3.4 Lunar Science Participation

3.5 Landing Sites

4 Elements, Crew Landers, Launch Vehicles and Upper Stages

4.1 Propulsion and Power Element

4.2 Habitat and Logistics Modules

4.3 Crew Landers and Transfer Element Studies

4.4 Launch Vehicles

5 NASA and Commercial Crew Development

5.1 Crew Selection and Training

5.2 Commercial Crew ISS Missions

5.3 Artemis Missions

5.4 The Next Generation Space Suit

5.5 Commercial Crew Space Suits

6 Artemis Lessons for Exploration

6.1 Utility of the Gateway

6.2 Sustainability

6.3 Impact on Future Hardware Design

6.4 Long Duration Science Operations

6.5 Launch Vehicle Payload Capability

7.1 NASA Programs

7.2 Navigation and Precision Landing

7.3 Deep Space Atomic Clock

7.4 In-Situ Resource Utilization

7.5 Lunar Power

7.6 Protection from Radiation

7.8 Lunar IceCube

8 Artemis Influence on Mars Planning

8.1 Mission Concepts and Plans

8.2 Technologies and Capabilities

8.3 Artemis Science Influence on Mars

8.4 Robotics

8.6 3D Printing

9 Conclusions

Appendices

1 The National Space Council's Role in Artemis and Mars

2 Community Letter to Congress Regarding NASA's Lunar Discovery

and Exploration Program

3 NASA's Gateway Memorandum for the Record

4 Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit

5 Solar Electric Propulsion and Hall Effect Thrusters

6 Technology

7 Timeline

8 Artemis Mythology

10 The Chinese Lunar Program

11 Crew Selection: A History and Prediction

12 Quotes

References

Glossary

About the Author

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