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In January 2023, NASA and DARPA announced their collaboration on DRACO, dividing the $499 million program between them for Phases 2 and 3. [6] [21] NASA is to be responsible for the propulsion system and nuclear reactor, and DARPA is to lead the vehicle and integration requirements, mission concept of operations, nuclear regulatory approvals ...
The project was proposed and created in 2014 by Dale Arney and Chris Jones, engineers at NASA Langley’s Space Mission Analysis Branch which where inspired by a meeting about potential Mars habitation programs to create a similar program for Venus. [4]
In 1984, with the Space Shuttle in service, a team based at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) made a feasibility study for NASA's return to the Moon.It anticipated later studies in using NASA's planned infrastructure – the Shuttle, a Shuttle-derived heavy lift vehicle, a space station, and an orbital transfer vehicle – to build a permanent 18-crew Moon base sometime between 2005 and 2015.
In July and August 1960, NASA's Space Task Group (STG) hosted a series of NASA-industry conferences to discuss post-Project Mercury crewed spacecraft plans. [4] Deputy Administrator Hugh L. Dryden announced at the conference opening that "the next spacecraft beyond Mercury will be called Apollo." [5]
For example, NASA practiced the concept of phased development in the 1960s with its phased project planning or what is often called phased review process. The phased review process was intended to break up the development of any project into a series of phases that could be individually reviewed in sequence.
The telescope was confirmed to be receiving power, starting a two-week deployment phase of its parts [4] and traveling to its target destination. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] A six-month commissioning phase followed of testing and calibrating scientific instruments, culminating in the first scientific results being publicly shared in July 2022.
Concept for NASA Design Reference Mission Architecture 5.0 (2009) NASA Design Reference Mission 5.0 [15] was done in 2009. [16] with an addendum in July 2009, [17] and a second addendum in March 2014 [18] There is also a version of DRA5 called Austere Human Missions to Mars, produced in 2009 that has a reduced amount of hardware and number of ...
Artist's conception of a human mission on the surface of Mars. 1989 painting by Les Bossinas of NASA's Lewis Research Center. A Space Launch System design in the 2010s. This rocket is envisioned as the launch vehicle for some of the latest NASA speculative long-term plans for Mars concepts, although there are some bold private venture plans that may also provide mass-to-orbit for any mission ...