Mission Operations

Don't worry this is not a birth announcement. Well, actually it could be! MISS in this presentation stands for Mars International Space Station. That's right a good focus point for our future exploration of our solar system is the creation of orbiting space stations that provide both observation and launch points for the study of our planetary neighbors.

MISS would be constructed in the same manner as the present ISS orbiting Earth. Like the ISS, MISS would be built in a LEO environment with the needed propulsion units to eventually move it on its way to Mars. Right, it would not be a high speed rocket trip to Mars, but as a moving space laboratory it would be gathering a host of new data enroute.

Well, forget it right? We just shelved the shuttle  So we take that glorious design and expand upon it and create a super shuttle that gives us the load capacity to carry the required components for MISS. We are planning on building a new HLV  anyway, so lets make it an HLV that will put a super shuttle in LEO.  

Purdue grad.  Hoosier by birth.  NASA ISS Flight Controller.  Father.  Husband.

Identity

Last Name: 

Mike

First Name: 

Allyn

Occupation: 

NASA Flight Controller

Rocket Scientist? (tehcnically speaking, yes), Aerospace Consultant, Pilot, Instructor, Flight Engineer, Former Crew Chief & Mechanic, Former Space Shuttle Training Instuctor, Space Media Analyst, Amatuer Astronomer about to turn Pro, Aerospace Historian, Photographer, Musician, Atlanta Braves Fan, Georgia Bulldogs Football Fanatic, Complete SPACE GEEK

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Last Name: 

Kirkman

First Name: 

Mark

@absolutspacegrl currently works at Johnson Space Center as a Flight Controller for the Space Shuttle. She enjoys travelling, science fiction books and movies, video games, and spoiling her cat.