Does anyone know of any serious work in orbital construction (including
papers about ISS and Mir construction at a detailed level)? I'm
putting together a proposal to a NASA program to build a simulator and
scheduler for construction of a very large orbital telescope and can't
find much on the web beyond vigorous hand waving.

The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr.
Tito going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
position of any organization I'm familiar with.

Is the stuff at Space Science Institute
(http://www.ssi.org/introduction.html)
too theoretical?

Brad W.

>From: Al Globus
>Reply-To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
>To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [spacesettlers] work in orbital construction
>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:15:07 -0800
>
>Does anyone know of any serious work in orbital construction (including
>papers about ISS and Mir construction at a detailed level)? I'm
>putting together a proposal to a NASA program to build a simulator and
>scheduler for construction of a very large orbital telescope and can't
>find much on the web beyond vigorous hand waving.
>
>---------------------
>The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
>jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
>Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
>pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr.
>Tito going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
>probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
>roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
>great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?
>
>Al Globus
>CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
>http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
>
>Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
>position of any organization I'm familiar with.
>

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Al,

If you haven't already, you might want to check out
MISSE (Materials International Space Station
Experiment). It is a project thats been going on
since 2001 in researching materials in space. NASA
had a website on it
(http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/background/facts/misse.html.

Some websearching on its name though should bring
up other facts. Good luck!

Ryan

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