Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located within a spherical volume centered on the earth and having a radius equal to the distance between the earth and moon.
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- adjective situated between the
Earth and theMoon - adjective situated below the orbit of the Moon, or equivalent distance from the Earth
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- adjective situated between the earth and the moon
Etymologies
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Examples
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I page my sisters, silent lights cast wide in cislunar space.
365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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With ISRU derived propellants and with local industrial development along with local food production, we can change the entire cost structure of operating in cislunar space.
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Basically, it is the difference is between landing a few times on the Moon to check off a box before going “on to Mars” or living and working on the Moon, including using its resources to create and extend a reusable, refuelable transportation infrastructure, to allow routine access to any point in cislunar space.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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I page my sisters, silent lights cast wide in cislunar space.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Develop heavy lift cislunar Ion propulsion systems for large cargo movement within the Inner solar system.
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A reusable cislunar human and cargo transport, coupled with a reusable single stage to orbit (Lunar) transit vehicle, and we have the critical elements needed.
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And this would be getting out of the cislunar system.
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In the case of spaceflight, it is to gradually develop a true space faring infrastructure, one that will first take people and machines beyond LEO into cislunar space, and then into planetary space.
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Just the smart transportation architecture can cut the cost of cislunar transport by a lot and instead of a few humans per year we can send many per month to the Moon.
Buzz is at it Again: Let's just change everything - NASA Watch 2009
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This is fine if your goal is to do lunar "touch-and-go" and "on to Mars" (which seems to be the mindset of the agency) but it does not lead to a build-up of reusable, permanent infrastructure on the Moon, permitting us to recoup our investment through resource extraction and the creation of a cislunar spaceflight systems.
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