Cognitive Systems Engineering and the Lunar Station
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NASA announced plans to construct the Lunar Station for long term exploration of the moon (See the NASA Overview Presentation for an overview of the program, and National Public Radio's report at NPR Report).
The Lunar Station will be an extremely large scale, extremely complex environment. It has a massive number of moving parts, and will consist of several self-contained systems, designed vertically, which are to be integrated into one huge system called the Lunar Station - what the systems engineers call "a system of systems". SubSystems will have names like Waste Management/Recycling, Power Management, Oxygen Generation/ReGeneration, Heat Management, and ...