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Mission Planning for Human Spaceflight Missions

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Planning is an essential part of human space flight. Therefore, it is crucial to understand its development during the last years and the current planning concepts. This chapter gives an insight into crew and ground activity planning, based on the International Space Station (ISS) as example.

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the kind support of Hilde Stenuit and Eric Istasse, the former members of the ESA Mission Science Office, who contributed to this chapter with their knowledge of the strategic and tactical ISS planning phases.

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  1. German Space Operations Center (GSOC), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234, Wessling, Germany

    Thomas Uhlig, Dennis Herrmann & Jérôme Campan

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Correspondence to Jérôme Campan .

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  1. German Space Operations Center (GSOC), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

    Florian Sellmaier

  2. German Space Operations Center (GSOC), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

    Thomas Uhlig

  3. German Space Operations Center (GSOC), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

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Uhlig, T., Herrmann, D., Campan, J. (2022). Mission Planning for Human Spaceflight Missions. In: Sellmaier, F., Uhlig, T., Schmidhuber, M. (eds) Spacecraft Operations. Springer Aerospace Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88593-9_17

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