LUNAR SHUTTLE OPERATIONS


Once the Moon Shuttle enters orbit, the Lunar Shuttle will come up to greet it. The passengers will exchange vehicles, and the new lunar–nauts will head down to the surface.

After boarding the Crew Module (CM), a Surface Vehicle (SV) will lift it off its perch on the lunar base. The SV will place it in an empty slot and transport it to a waiting Lunar Shuttle.

Once the shuttle lands, the SV takes the CM off the shuttle and transports it back to the lunar base, where it places on top its perch again.

For passengers going up, crew or tourists, they will have dinner, climb into their lander, and blast off to meetup with the Moon Shuttle.

The following timeline is for the passenger version of the shuttle:


START

END

DURATION

CLOSE HATCH

20:00



TRANSPORT CM TO LS

20:00

21:00

01:00

LIFTOFF

21:00



RENDEZVOUS AND DOCK

21:00

23:00

02:00

TRANSFER PASSENGERS

23:00

03:00

04:00

UNDOCK AND MOVE AWAY

03:00

04:45

01:45

START POWERED DESCENT

04:45



LANDING MANEUVERS

04:45

05:15

00:30

TOUCHDOWN

05:15



TRANSPORT CM TO LSS

05:15

06:15

01:00

OPEN HATCH

06:15



Table 1: Lunar Shuttle Spaceflight Timeline

There will be no meals served during this flight.

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