This paper presents the HLLV requirements, architectures and concepts. The paper focuses on vehicle options and facility requirements/impacts associated with unmanned heavy-lift cargo vehicles needed to assure future missions can be achieved

Brady, Hugh

Evans, Ray

Heuter, Uwe

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

The Space Congress® Proceedings 1991 (28th) Space Achievement: A Global Destiny Apr 24th, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Paper Session II-B - NASA's Heavy-Lift Cargo Launch Vehicle Needs and Options for the Post 2000 Period Uwe Heuter NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL Hugh Brady NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL Ray Evans NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-proceedings Scholarly Commons Citation Heuter, Uwe; Brady, Hugh; and Evans, Ray, "Paper Session II-B - NASA's Heavy-Lift Cargo Launch Vehicle Needs and Options for the Post 2000 Period" (1991). The Space Congress® Proceedings. 12. https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-proceedings/proceedings-1991-28th/april-24-1991/12 This Event is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Space Congress® Proceedings by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact commons@erau.edu. Heavy-Lift Needs And Options For TheUwaRay (KSC)Abstracttransportation, a of goodand a starting with the ; cost transportation Is a key to the f' in in the term, is making more use of the we and from them to provide to the needs.The will the to for manyare to safety, and operationalin is in transportation systemsby the of lift complementary tothe to of transportation nodeand and key payioads, Turn-of-the- 	a for a new unmanned modular, lowcost with new and^newfor and flexibility.as derived vehiclesand and Advanced Launch Systems are The will require a heavy-liftto the and assembly to a is to establish theThis the and concepts. The on and associated with to future missions can befi-40

Paper Session II-B - NASA\u27s Heavy-Lift Cargo Launch Vehicle Needs and Options for the Post 2000 Period

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Paper Session II-B - NASA\u27s Heavy-Lift Cargo Launch Vehicle Needs and Options for the Post 2000 Period

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