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Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon

posted by martyb on Thursday November 07 2019, @10:59AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for soylent_red.

Well the fastest path is accelerating straight down but still...

Boeing's lunar lander pitch promises 'fastest path' to the moon

Boeing wants to make one of the Artemis program lunar landers that will take humans to the surface of the moon. The aerospace company has submitted a proposal to NASA for an integrated Human Lander System (HLS), which it says will be designed to reach the moon in the "fewest steps" possible. NASA has been accepting proposals from private space corporations and is expected to choose at least two of them by January next year for development. Blue Origin announced its own take on a lander called "Blue Moon" -- which it will develop in partnership with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper -- earlier this year.

NASA intends to send humans to the moon in an Orion capsule atop an SLS rocket. After the capsule docks with the Lunar Gateway, a space station the agency will place in the lunar orbit, the astronauts would transfer to a lander that would take them to the moon itself. Boeing says the HLS can either dock with the Gateway or dock directly with Orion to take astronauts straight to the lunar surface.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 08 2019, @03:53AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 08 2019, @03:53AM (#917735) Journal

    We aren't in a race with the Reds, so nobody wants to throw gobs of money at it.

    NASA has spent something like 5 Apollo programs since the end of the Apollo program. It hasn't gotten us back to the Moon. Spending gobs of money isn't going to cut it.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @08:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @08:57AM (#918185)

    Some of it helps keep getting them to Hawaii though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS#Missions [wikipedia.org]

    The purpose of the detailed research studies is to determine what is required to keep a space flight crew happy and healthy during an extended mission to Mars and while living on Mars

    Even though they could probably ask the Navy:
    https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/06/politics/life-on-uss-missouri-nuclear-submarine/index.html [cnn.com]
    https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-submarine7.htm [howstuffworks.com]

    All that money and bullshit for "Mars" and "Moon" stuff but where's the scientific research on proving that Mars or Moon gravity is enough for humans? For some reason there isn't enough money for stuff like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Module [wikipedia.org]

    It was cancelled in 2005[2] alongside the Habitation Module and the Crew Return Vehicle, because of ISS cost overruns and scheduling problems in Shuttle assembly flights.

    So I wouldn't shed a tear if the NASA of today is shutdown.