NASA/ESA Exploration Concepts

The NASA-ESA Comparative Architecture Assessment

“In January 2008, NASA and ESA agreed to conduct a comparative architecture assessment to determine if their respective lunar architecture concepts could complement, augment, or enhance the exploration plans of the other. From January through March representatives from NASA and ESA engaged in a series of joint, qualitative assessments of potential ESA capabilities as applied to NASA’s architecture concepts. Initial findings from these assessments, with respect to each potential ESA category under study, are as follows:”