Lifting Body Aircraft: Lifting Body, Crew Return Vehicle, Kliper, NASA M2-F1, Hl-20 Personnel Launch System, Northrop Hl-10

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Lifting body, Crew Return Vehicle, Kliper, NASA M2-F1, HL-20 Personnel Launch System, Northrop HL-10,MorePlease note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Lifting body, Crew Return Vehicle, Kliper, NASA M2-F1, HL-20 Personnel Launch System, Northrop HL-10, Lockheed Martin X-33, AEREON 26, NASA X-38, Northrop M2-F2, Northrop M2-F3, Martin Marietta X-24A, Burnelli RB-1, Martin Marietta X-24B, Burnelli CBY-3, VentureStar, Burnelli CB-16, ASSET, Facetmobile, Rans S-11 Pursuit, Lockheed L-301, Martin X-23 PRIME, Burnelli UB-14, Burnelli GX-3, Silver Dart, MUSTARD, FDL-7. Excerpt: The Crew Return Vehicle (CRV), sometimes referred to as the Assured Crew Return Vehicle (ACRV), is the proposed lifeboat or escape module for the International Space Station (ISS). A number of different vehicles and designs have been considered over the past two decades - with several flying as developmental test prototypes - but no one single design has been built as the dedicated CRV. In April 2010, President Obama directed NASA to develop a CRV based on the Orion technology. In the original space station design, emergencies were intended to be dealt with by having a safe area on the station that the crew could evacuate to, pending a rescue from a U.S. Space Shuttle. However, the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the subsequent grounding of the shuttle fleet caused station planners to rethink this concept. Planners foresaw the need for a CRV to address three specific scenarios: The ISS is equipped with a Health Maintenance Facility (HMF) to handle a certain level of medical situations, which are broken into three main classifications: However, the HMF is not designed to have general surgical capability, so a means of evacuating a crew member in case of a medical situation that is beyond the HMFs capabilities is essential. A number of studies have attempted to assess the medical risks for long-term space station habitation, but the results are inconclusive, as epidemiological data is ...