Flexible path
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The flexible path was a set of destinations for further crewed space exploration in the inner Solar System proposed in the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee of 2009.
Outer space exploration destinations envisioned in US space policy
Bold designates missions beyond Cis-lunar space.
Legend: [flyby] — [orbit] — [landing]
- sub-orbital flights
- Low Earth Orbit - the International Space Station (Constellation program initial destination)
- Moon flyby or orbit - for testing and development purposes
- Earth-Moon L1 - assembly complex for other missions, servicing of propellant depots or other spacecraft such as self-propulsion observatories and reusable non-reentry crew or cargo vehicles
- Earth-Sun L2 - servicing of space observatories requiring Earth shade
- Earth-Sun L1 - servicing of solar observatories or crewed solar observatory (similar to proposal for the Apollo Applications Program)
- Near-Earth objects (Constellation program third destination)
- Mars flyby
- Moon landing (Constellation program second destination)
- Mars orbit, including robotic landing and sample return
- Mars Moons
- Venus flyby or orbit[1] (similar to proposal for the Apollo Applications Program)
- Mars landing (Constellation program final destination)
The list is ordered according to the delta-v required by the mission.
References
- ↑ HSF Final Report: Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation Archived 2019-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, October 2009, Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, p. 40.
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