title: New ideas for affordable space missions
abstract: In September 1995, NASA-Goddard held a workshop on low-cost access to space for science missions.  The workshop provided briefings on balloons, sounding rockets, Shuttle payloads, and low-cost free-flyer concepts, to provide options of getting experiments into space.  This report is the result of a panel session organized with the aim of generating new ideas beyond those presented in the workshop.  In addition to the authors, Orlando Figueroa and Paul Ondrus of NASA-Goddard and Richard Zwirnbaum of Computer Sciences Corp. participated in the discussions.  The ideas presented do not necessarily reflect the current thinking of NASA managers.  Although the panel discussion was focused on the kinds of science missions usually funded by NASA, most of the ideas that were generated are relevant to military and commercial missions as well.
authors.affiliation: AlliedSignal Technical Services.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eller
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roussel-Dupre
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bruegman
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003363:Cost Control; D017046:Cost Savings; D013026:Space Flight / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018581:Technology Transfer; D014481:United States; D018557:United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration