A method is presented for the selection of optimal modular building blocks for platforming of manned Moon and Mars landing systems employing modularity on the subsystem level; platforming shall here be defined as the reuse of designs across different systems. The motivation for platforming is the need to reduce overall Moon and Mars exploration architecture lifecycle cost by lowering spacecraft development, test, and fixed production cost, and to provide flexibility in system design to accommodate changes in the exploration architecture.
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