Self-assembling transfer vehicles for human Mars missions

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 599-602

  Donahue, Benjamin ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; ORBITS;

SELF-ASSEMBLING TRANSFER VEHICLES;

PLANETARY LANDERS;

EID: 0032641878     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.27206     Document Type: Article

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