Crew transfer vehicle trajectory optimization

35th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Saunders, David ^a   Alien Jr , Gary ^a   Gage, Peter ^a   Reuther, James ^b  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MS 23 11   (United States)

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