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2 Cross-Cutting Issues
Pages 43-46

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... Reflecting on these visits and the subsequent investigation and analysis, the committee cites the following specific issues that cut across individual project lines; these issues will receive further analysis in the next months, and findings and recommendations will appear in the committee's final report, to be released in the summer of 2008.
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... and/or funding to carry out necessary flight tests or to develop needed test facilities. Specific examples were identified in the following programs: 02 Ablative Thermal Protection System for the Crew Exploration Vehicle, 03 Lunar Dust Mitigation, 05 Cryogenic Fluid Management, 09 Integrated Systems for Health Management, 11 Intelligent Software Design, 12 Autonomous Landing and Hazardous Avoidance Technology, 19 In Situ Resource Utilization, 20 Fission Surface Power, and 22 Human-Robotic Systems/Analogs.
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... Appendixes
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Key Terms

  • lunar surface
  • exploration technology
  • exploration vehicle
  • contractor community
  • projects reviewed

  • surface operations
  • major negative
  • situ resource
  • future workforce
  • existing technologies

  • lunar dust
  • etdp funding
  • future human
  • expertise required
  • research goals

  • ultimate success
  • intelligent software
  • project lines
  • health management
  • hazardous avoidance

  • thermal protection
  • negative impacts
  • allow nasa
  • autonomous landing
  • incremental advances

  • software design
  • ablative thermal
  • surface power
  • cryogenic fluid
  • concomitant lack


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