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Asteroid Lander with EVA ramp deployed

by

Walter B. Myers/Novapix

Reference

a-ast99-90713

Date

2011-11-05

This manned Asteroid Lander includes a hatch permitting explorers (in space suits) to exit the lander and explore the asteroid's airless, lunar-like surface. Given that the surface gravity is so low, in lieu of a ladder a simple ramp is deployed to assist the explorers with exiting and entering the lander.