ISRU Publications

• Process Demonstration For Lunar In Situ Resource Utilization - Molten Oxide Electrolysis NASA/TM - 2006-214600 - August 2006
• Unique NASA Science Lab Tackles 'Sticky' Issue of Lunar Dust - Steve Roy, 8/24/2005
  
• Developing Glassy Magnets from simulated Composition of Moon/Mars Regolith for Exploration Applications - Presented at the Fall Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting in Boston 2004
  
• Lunar Regolith Simulant Materials: Recommendations for Standardization, Production, and Usage NASA/TP - 2006-214605 (2005 Workshop Final Report)
  Related Material:
  
  • Book of Abstracts - Lunar Regolith Simulant Materials Workshop, 1/24/05
  • Lunar Sourcebook Available at Lunar and Planetary Institute Online Store. Available for limited use (CD-ROM version $20

Conference Papers & Presentations

Lunar Site Preparation and Outpost Setup Workshop

• (Presentation) Implications of Geology for Construction

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting 2009

• (Paper) Lunar Regolith Characterization for Simulant Design and Evaluation Using Figure of Merit Algorithms

AIAA SPACE 2008

• (Presentation) Constraining Particle Variation in Lunar Regolith for Simulant Design

Geological Society of America (GSA) 2008 Joint Annual Meeting

• (Presentation) Analysis of lunar highland regolith samples from Apollo 16 drive core 64001/2 and lunar regolith simulants - an expanding comparative database

PTMSS - Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium

• (Presentation) Extant and Extinct Lunar Regolith Simulants: Modal Analyses of NU-LHT-1M and -2m, OB-1, JSC-1, JSC-1A and -1AF, FJS-1, and MLS-1

STAIF 2008

• Some Expected Mechanical Characteristics of Lunar Dust: A Geological View , Doug Rickman and Ken Street
  • Presentation (of above)

Simulant Development Publications:

• Lunar Simulant Standard - Presented in Beijing, China May 2007
• Property Measurement Requirements (April 2007)

For more information, please contact:

ISFR/ISRU/Dust Project Manager:

Carole A. McLemore (256) 544-2314 Carole.A.McLemore@nasa.gov

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