Limitations of Reliability for Long-Endurance Human Spaceflight

Long-endurance human spaceflight - such as missions to Mars or its moons - will present a never-before-seen maintenance logistics challenge. Crews will be in space for longer and be farther way from Earth than ever before. Resupply and abort options will be heavily constrained, and will have timesca...

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Main Authors: Owens, Andrew Charles, De Weck, Olivier L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Published: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116388
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