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Building a crew vehicle to transport six astronauts on an interplanetary trajectory to Callisto will be no easy task. Designing the spacecraft - which we’ call tbe Shackleton- to protect tbe crew from tbe letbal radiation encountered in deep space will require cutting-edge engineering and design. Then tbere’s the issue of designing a life-support system (LSS) tbat must work flawlessly for more than five years. What follows is an overview of how these systems may be developed and a discussion of tbe revolutionary technology tbat may enable such a mission.
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Seedhouse, E. (2011). HOPE Hardware. In: Interplanetary Outpost. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9748-7_5
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