The Aquila Mission by Doug Cook

Author:Doug Cook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mars, asteroid, sabotage, comet, spaceflight, nasa astronaut, deep space habitat, human deep space mission
Publisher: Doug Cook

CHAPTER 11 Crew Arrival and Altair Assembly at ISS LEO

“In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.”

―Carl Sagan

The Aquila crew on Altair/Rigel with the fully fueled cryogenic OOS-2 massing 130 metric tons is on approach to ISS in low Earth orbit for final Altair assembly. The additional cryogenic stage, OOS-1 will be launched by a Peregrine Heavy. The OOS-1 cryo-stage is modified for fifty-two metric tons of propellants. It will be launched fully fueled for the mission then mated behind OOS-2. This stack will be docked with the arriving Tarazed and Libertas modules. The Tarazed Hab module loaded with its payload of 10 metric tons of consumables and the Libertas airlock module is stacked for launch by a United Rocket Gamma IV Heavy booster at Vandenberg. MMU-1 and MMU-2 are stowed inside the Libertas Module for launch. They will be moved and secured in their parking garage on the Nadir side of Libertas as a part of the Altair stack preparation at ISS.

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