I couldn't find this video on the NASA website or on Youtube but after my last proclamation of exclusivity I dare not do that again because someone is bound to have put this on the websome where. So, enjoy this 2min 6s NASA Langley Research Center video that shows a European Space Agency cargo lander delivering modules for a lunar outpost
Click through to the extended portion of this blog post for another lunar outpost video that has found its way on to Youtube
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VIDEO: NASA International lunar outpost concept
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on September 1, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply
Thanks for the links, copied them over and acked you here
on September 1, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply
Hi Rob, you can find the video here :
http://spaceflight.esa.int/strategy/pages/home_events_integratedArchitectureReview.cfm
The video is there :
http://spaceflight.esa.int/strategy/pages/PDF/home/events/integrated_architecture_review/7_july/7a.CIO_Trailer_HD_720p.wmv
on September 2, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply
Very nice video. I do have one question about the lunar architecture - How do they get the modules down from on top of the lander? I don't see a crane or a ramp. Just wondering as I have not seen that detail in anything that I have read.
on September 2, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply
You do see cranes in other images. Then you have to ask how do they get the crane vehicle off the top of the damn lander? I would imagine the idea is for a ramp and the cranes are wheeled, or tracked? A NASA Altair cargo lander has, at the moment, in theory, a 14,000kg (30,800lb) payload capacity. I would imagine even on Earth you can have a pretty good for crane for 14 metric tonnes.
on September 6, 2008 7:15 AM | Reply
I have seen other videos that end with the same scene of many Altair or other descent stages spread across the Lunar landscape. Is there any use for any of the lander components once the landers have landed?
on September 7, 2008 12:26 AM | Reply
Yes, they do want to look at the use of residual propellant that can can be scavenged from the descent stages and used for various purposes by the outpost. They are going to have to do something with the stages eventually because they are going to have to have a used descent stage "park" at some point, rather like an airliners graveyard