Low Earth Orbit Rendezvous Strategy for Lunar Missions

On January 14, 2004 President George W. Bush announced a new vision for space exploration calling for NASA to return humans to the moon. In 2005 NASA decided to use a low Earth orbit (LEO) rendezvous strategy for the lunar missions. A discrete event simulation (DES) based model of this strategy was constructed. Results of the model were then used for subsequent analysis to explore the ramifications of the LEO rendezvous strategy