Join us at our next meeting of the NSS North Houston Space Society Saturday (January 5, 2019) at 6 PM at my house (9327 Swansea Bay Dr.; Spring, TX 77379). (Everyone is welcomed, feel free to invite others.)
Topic: NASA’s planned Gateway – Space Station around the moon
Agenda:
6:00 – Pizza/Open discussions
6:20 – NASA’s Gateway – Overview
6:40 – Choosing a Lunar Orbit for the Gateway – Dr. Greg Stanley
7:00 – Alternative Approach – Moon Direct – Keith Dauzat
7:20 – Discussion and Wrap Up
Topic: NASA’s planned Gateway – Space Station around the moon
Agenda:
6:00 – Pizza/Open discussions
6:20 – NASA’s Gateway – Overview
6:40 – Choosing a Lunar Orbit for the Gateway – Dr. Greg Stanley
7:00 – Alternative Approach – Moon Direct – Keith Dauzat
7:20 – Discussion and Wrap Up
This meeting will feature several small presentations about topics related to the NASA Gateway, an orbital outpost around the moon.
What is it? What is the history of the idea? What are the plans? What alternatives are there? Is it something that we should support, oppose, or just accept/observe?
Here are some articles that will help you come up to speed about the Gateway. (Reading them is not required to enjoy the meeting)
Official
- Q&A: NASA’s New Spaceship – Nasa – Nov. 13, 2018
- National Space Exploration Campaign Report – NASA – September 2018
- Deep Space Gateway Concept – Science Workshop – February 27–March 1, 2018 • Denver, Colorado
Overview Material/Articles
- Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway: the next space station will orbit the Moon – Andy Ridgway 20th November 2018
- Charting a course for astronaut safety as NASA launches to the Moon and to Mars December 3, 2018 by Mara Johnson-Groh, NASA
- Lockheed Martin – Ahead of the Curve
Technical
- Why is a near rectilinear halo orbit proposed for LOP-G (formerly known as Deep Space Gateway?) (StackExchange)
- Options for Staging Orbits in Cis-Lunar Space (Ryan Whitley and Roland Martinez) October 21, 2015 – NASA
- ORBIT MAINTENANCE AND NAVIGATION OF HUMAN
SPACECRAFT AT CISLUNAR NEAR RECTILINEAR HALO ORBITS (Diane Davis, et. al) - TARGETING CISLUNAR NEAR RECTILINEAR HALO ORBITS FOR
HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION (Jacob Williams, et. al.) - Measurements of galactic cosmic ray shielding
with the CRaTER instrument, 2013, C. Zeitlin, et. al - International Deep Space Interoperability Standards
Opinion and Other Points of View
- We have the technology to build a colony on the moon. Let’s do it. (Robert Zubrin & Homer Hickam) Dec. 10, 2018 – Washington Post
- Moon Direct (Robert Zubrin) The New Atlantis
- Advisory group skeptical of NASA lunar exploration plans by Jeff Foust — November 16, 2018 – Space News
- NASA studying three-stage approach to human-class lunar landers
by Jeff Foust — November 20, 2018 - Former astronaut criticizes lunar gateway plans
by Jeff Foust — June 18, 2018 - [Video] Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway Debate – 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention
- Moon Village Association
- NASA Administrator Bridenstine: ‘We’re not going to do flags and footprints again’ – August 30, 2018 – Derek Richardson (contains Video of NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaking at the NASA Advisory Council Meeting)
- Former NASA administrator says Lunar Gateway is “a stupid architecture” – ERIC BERGER – 11/15/2018
- Canada not sold on U.S-led lunar Gateway despite NASA boss’ direct pitch by David Pugliese — November 15, 2018
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