Landers

When we lose a space shuttle full of people, it’s a national tragedy and shuts down the program for a while. 5 years now for the mars landers is amazing, useful, and fairly cheap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Until then the Shuttle C is your heavy lift and the landers are the large payloads that your proposed architecture lifts to LEO. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Robotic "landers" operated by Aberdeen University have filmed fish at a record-breaking depth of nearly 8km. ❋ Ian Sample (2011)

This should include hypergolic refuelling for both the landers and the Earth-to-EML Orion crew shuttles (~2030-35). ❋ Unknown (2009)

By avoiding the need for crew-rated landers and surface systems, the complexity and development requirements should be less burdensome, and easier to implement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Ares could launch massive hydrogen and oxygen fuel tankers into Earth and lunar orbit for reusable manned OTVs and lunar landers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From the WSJ article: NASA's replacement for the space shuttle -- designed initially to transport people to the station -- is the $40 billion-plus Constellation project, intended to develop a new family of rockets, space vehicles and lunar landers that would eventually go to the moon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because it wouldn't need giant rockets, it could be relatively small watch film of the Apollo landers taking off from the moon to see what I mean. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)

The IRHAX approach avoids the need for these additional elements, and frees up resources to augment science activities on the surface, such as development of robotic landers, long-duration rovers and mobile laboratories, and sophisticated instrument packages. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It starts off with the WALL-E robots being built to manage the trash situation on Earth, one of them, our adventurous friend from the 1st movie, somehow hitches a ride to the Moon where he drives around visiting historic sites, future lunar bases, and meets other robots/landers/rovers etc. from the past, present and future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The word went out among the back-to-the-landers, and Dave was besieged. ❋ Nick Rosen (2010)

Crews will stay longer and learn to exploit the moon's resources, while landers make one way trips to deliver cargo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If that is coupled with a Cislunar transportation system that makes sense, which means reusable landers, a reusable space vehicle (RSV) for round trips between lunar orbit and ISS, and nothing more than what we have now (Shuttle, or Shuttle C, EELV, Orion, Dragon, COTS), we can change the equation on transportation costs rapidly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Missions like the space station, Hubble, the mars orbiters and landers, they all had to be sized to fit on the launch systems that existed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Next, an EML1 transfer station with reusable landers to support the outpost. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But there will still be a significant need for robotic landers and surface systems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

LV's could serve both, but the CEV's and landers are going to be totally different beasts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Again, Buzz Aldrin has provoked my thoughts by suggesting that the U.S. defer any manned landings on the moon at all, instead developing a multi-national lunar development regime and using the heavy lift boosters and landers that would be developed by others, not the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2009)