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Systems Integration for Project Constellation: Letter Report (2004)

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Suggested Citation:"Attachment C: Program Briefings." National Research Council. 2004. Systems Integration for Project Constellation: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11104.
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Attachment C
Program Briefings

As part of the information-gathering effort for this study, five committee members made presentations to the committee on lessons learned from systems integration of past space and nonspace megaprograms, as follows:

  • aerospace programs from Viking to Space Station, A. Thomas Young

  • Apollo/Bellcom, Robert C. Seamans, Jr.

  • National Reconnaissance Office/COMSAT, Joseph V. Charyk

  • selected megaprojects from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Elvin R. “Vald” Heiberg III

  • selected civilian mega-projects, William C. Breen

These programs were selected because they exhibited systems integration characteristics comparable to those of Project Constellation in terms of program scope and complexity.

Suggested Citation:"Attachment C: Program Briefings." National Research Council. 2004. Systems Integration for Project Constellation: Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11104.
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With the announcement of the Vision for U.S. Space Exploration, NASA has formed a new Exploration Systems Enterprise charged with development of systems to be used in the exploration of the moon, Mars, and other destinations. A key component of that enterprise is Project Constellation which is responsible for all of the systems necessary for human exploration. It is essential that those systems be integrated effectively for the mission to succeed. To assist with this objective, NASA asked the NRC to assess the relative merits of seven approaches for systems integration. This letter report presents this assessment. It provides a list of 21 criteria for judging the capability of each of the approaches to succeed in this complex integration task, and ratings of how well each can fulfill those criteria

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