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Sam Fraser
04-18-2010, 01:36 AM
http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=NEOnauts2

We'd probably use a "Bigelow balloon", but I thought this video showed a nice sequence of launch, transit, arrival, sojourn and return.
joertexas
04-18-2010, 06:06 AM
http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=NEOnauts2

We'd probably use a "Bigelow balloon", but I thought this video showed a nice sequence of launch, transit, arrival, sojourn and return.

I'd love to know the specifics of the mission...

JR
Sam Fraser
04-18-2010, 02:31 PM
A little more information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program#Orion_asteroid_mission
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/061227_asteroid_orion.html
http://www.space.com/news/061116_asteroid_nasa.html

Also a feasibility study:

http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub/1304h/1304%20(Korsmeyer).pdf
Sam Fraser
04-18-2010, 03:44 PM
More studies are cited in the previous Orion feasibility study. Anyone have time to locate them online and download them? I've already found this:

Davis, Donald R., et al., The Role of Near-Earth Asteroids in
Initiative, SAIC-90/1464, Study No. 1-12-232-S28 (1990).
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/ResourcesNearEarthSpace/resources23.pdf

And also come across this while searching on Google:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/decadal/sbag/topical_wp/PaulAAbell.pdf