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A Feasibility Study For Using Commercial Off The Shelf (Cots) Hardware For Meeting Nasa’S Need For A Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (Cots) To The International Space Station - [Cots]2, Chad Lee Davis
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The space vehicle system concept (i.e. resupply vehicle) described is based on the new direction that President George W. Bush announced on January 14, 2004 for NASA’s Human Exploration, which has the space shuttle retiring in 2011 following the completion of the International Space Station (ISS). This leads to a problem for the ISS community regarding the capability of meeting a sixty metric-ton cargo shortfall in resupply and the ability of returning large payloads, experiment racks and any other items too large to fit into a crew only type spacecraft like the Orion or Soyuz. NASA and the ISS partners …