Truemors
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
NASA Manned Moon Landing Hardware Begins Bidding Process
Share:
by Fairbanks | December 20, 2008 at 12:41 pm
314 views | 4 Recommendations | 2 comments
See: http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/
See also:
http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/sol.cgi?acqid=132929#Draft%20Document
for the proposal documents.
This webpage is available now, to view RFQs and RFPs. NASA has sent requests for this phase of design to registered NASA contractors. The moon base will be capable of supporting four astronauts for 500 days at a time.
Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2008
U.S. space agency officials have released a draft request for design support for the Altair lunar lander vehicle, part of NASA's Constellation Program.
http://www.moondaily.com/...plans_sought_999.html
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it's Altair lunar lander will deliver four astronauts to the moon's surface late in the next decade, fulfilling U.S. space exploration goals.
NASA's Altair Lunar Lander could have its first test flight with in-orbit propulsion firings in June 2018 after being launched by the US space agency's Ares V cargo launch vehicle.
Not known at this time is the status the Constellation Program and the Ares launcher will assume under the new Administration beginning Jan 20, 2009. The entire program is under review by the Transition Team.
NASA is releasing a flurry of RFQs and RFPs at the aed of this year. Or end of the present Administration. The first test launch of the Ares is now scheduled for July, $300 million.
Advertisement
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (2)
at 14:59 on December 21st, 2008
December 17, 1903 is the date of the first powered flights at Kitty Hawk. Kitty Hawk is also where the Moon, Mars, and Beyond program for NASA's return to the moon was announced on the centennial of the first powered flight 2003. Today the bidding for the new moon lander was opened. 105 years. Studebaker had electric cars in those days.
The photo is of the sun at noon looking due south. That's as high as it gets on solstice, three degrees elevation, and then it sets. Lens was 45 mm.
at 13:49 on December 27th, 2008
Good story.
I hope they get it right.