Piloted operations at a near-Earth object (NEO)

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 65, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1689-1697

  Landis, Rob R ^a   Abell, Paul A ^b   Korsmeyer, David J ^a   Jones, Thomas D ^c   Adamo, Daniel R ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c University Space Research Association   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constellation program; Deep space; Human spaceflight; NASA; Near Earth asteroid; NEO; Orion spacecraft

Indexed keywords

CONSTELLATION PROGRAM; DEEP SPACE; HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT; NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID; NEO; ORION SPACECRAFT;

ASTEROIDS; EARTH (PLANET); INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 70349775680     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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