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ACTA ASTRONAUTICA
Volume 68, Issue 7-8, Pages 1353-1360Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.08.010
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Apollo; Constellation; Orion; Knowledge capture; Lessons learned
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This paper shares an interesting and unique case study of knowledge capture by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an ongoing project to recapture and make available the lessons learned from the Apollo lunar landing project so that those working on future projects do not have to reinvent the wheel. NASA's new Constellation program, the successor to the Space Shuttle program, proposes a return to the Moon using a new generation of vehicles. The Orion Crew Vehicle and the Altair Lunar Lander will use hardware, practices, and techniques descended and derived from Apollo, Shuttle, and the International Space Station. However, the new generation of engineers and managers who will be working with Orion and Altair are largely from the decades following Apollo, and are likely not well aware of what was developed in the 1960s. In 2006, a project at NASA's Johnson Space Center was started to find pertinent Apollo-era documentation and gather it, format it, and present it using modern tools for today's engineers and managers. This Apollo Mission Familiarization for Constellation Personnel project is accessible via the web from any NASA center for those interested in learning answers to the question how did we do this during Apollo? (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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