Frontispiece
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The Artemis Lunar Program Overview
2.1 NASA's Concept
2.2 Summary of the Elements
2.3 The Controversy
2.4 The Budget
2.5 Politics
3 Spacecraft, Landers, Rovers and Payloads
3.1 Commercial Spacecraft
3.2 Commercial Lunar Payload Services
3.3 Commercial Payloads and Instruments
3.4 Lunar Science Participation
3.5 Landing Sites
4 Elements, Crew Landers, Launch Vehicles and Upper Stages
4.1 Propulsion and Power Element
4.2 Habitat and Logistics Modules
4.3 Crew Landers and Transfer Element Studies
4.4 Launch Vehicles
4.5 Upper Stages
5 NASA and Commercial Crew Development
5.1 Crew Selection and Training
5.2 Commercial Crew ISS Missions
5.3 Artemis Missions
5.4 The Next Generation Space Suit
5.5 Commercial Crew Space Suits
5.6 Crew Health
6 Artemis Lessons for Exploration
6.1 Utility of the Gateway
6.2 Sustainability
6.3 Impact on Future Hardware Design
6.4 Long Duration Science Operations
6.5 Launch Vehicle Payload Capability
7 Enabling Technology Advances
7.1 NASA Programs
7.2 Navigation and Precision Landing
7.3 Deep Space Atomic Clock
7.4 In-Situ Resource Utilization
7.5 Lunar Power
7.6 Protection from Radiation
7.7 Advances in Optical Communications
7.8 Lunar IceCube
8 Artemis Influence on Mars Planning
8.1 Mission Concepts and Plans
8.2 Technologies and Capabilities
8.3 Artemis Science Influence on Mars
8.4 Robotics
8.5 Regolith Mining and Processing
8.6 3D Printing
9 Conclusions
Appendices
1 The National Space Council's Role in Artemis and Mars
2 Community Letter to Congress Regarding NASA's Lunar Discovery
and Exploration Program
3 NASA's Gateway Memorandum for the Record
4 Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit
5 Solar Electric Propulsion and Hall Effect Thrusters
6 Technology
7 Timeline
8 Artemis Mythology
9 The Moon Village Association
10 The Chinese Lunar Program
11 Crew Selection: A History and Prediction
12 Quotes
References
Glossary
About the Author
Index
