A baseline mission was designed to retrieve 1 Kg of sample from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin at 50 deg. S Lat. and 90 deg Long. From a decision tree of mass effective options, the most probable mission was extracted using the rocket equation. The most promising mission consists of a direct route to and from the moon and uses a 2-stage lander that does not rendezvous upon return.

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Creator

• Chani, Sumeet Kaur
• Tynes, Jason Edward

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 03D007M

Advisor

• Durgin, William W.

Year

• 2003

Date created

• 2003-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright