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vi, 121 pages (single-sided). Tables. Figures (some with color). The Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, known as ESMD, at NASA Headquarters in Washington oversees the Constellation, human research, exploration technology development and lunar precursor robotic programs as well as the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project. The Constellation Program oversees work performed at a variety of NASA centers, prime contractors and subcontractors located around the country. This work includes the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the Ares I launch vehicle, ground operations, mission operations and extravehicular activity systems. The Constellation Program (abbreviated CxP) is a canceled crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009. The major goals of the program were "completion of the International Space Station" and a "return to the Moon no later than 2020" with a crewed flight to the planet Mars as the ultimate goal. The program's logo reflected the three stages of the program: the Earth (ISS), the Moon, and finally Marsā "while the Mars goal also found expression in the name given to the program's booster rockets: Ares (the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Mars). The technological aims of the program included the regaining of significant astronaut experience beyond low Earth orbit and the development of technologies necessary to enable sustained human presence on other planetary bodies. Constellation began in response to the goals laid out in the Vision for Space Exploration under NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and President George W. Bush. O'Keefe's successor, Michael D. Griffin, ordered a complete review, termed the Exploration Systems Architecture Study, which reshaped how NASA would pursue the goals laid out in the Vision for Space Exploration, and its findings were formalized by the NASA Authorization Act of 2005. The Act directed NASA to "develop a sustained human presence on the Moon, including a robust precursor program to promote exploration, science, commerce and US preeminence in space, and as a stepping stone to future exploration of Mars and other destinations." Work began on this revised Constellation Program, to send astronauts first to the International Space Station, then to the Moon, and then to Mars and beyond. This Systems Engineering Management Plan is a rare surviving technical document from this canceled program. It addressed the System Engineering and Integration (SE&I) Approach, the SE&I Roles and Responsibilities, Pre-Phase A Systems Engineering and Integration, Phase A, Phase B, Phase C, Phase D, and Phase E. These phases addressed safety and mission assurance, systems management, Systems Analysis, Simulation-Based Acquisition, Research and Technology Development, Requirements Definition, Test and Verification, Operations, Sustaining Engineering, Functional Analysis, Manufacturing and Assembly, Launch Site Operations, and Logistics Capability Development. Disbound, held together with a binder clip.
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