Architecture Definition Documents: NASA web page¶
Page: https://www.nasa.gov/moontomarsarchitecture-architecturedefinitiondocuments/. No date on
the page. Fetched 2026-10-01T07:22:05Z. File:
sources/text/pages/moontomarsarchitecture-architecturedefinitiondocuments.md.
Summary. NASA's shelf of architecture products, grouped by the review that produced them, newest first: "NASA publishes an updated Architecture Definition Document each year that explains the latest Moon to Mars Architecture in deep technical detail. The documents reflect the results of the prior years' strategic analysis cycle and Architecture Concept Review" (top of page). It is the best single list of which versions exist, and so of which ones the wiki doesn't hold. Each 2024 and 2025 spreadsheet is "provided for ease of importing into relevant systems or databases".
The products, by review¶
| Heading on the page | Product, as named | Link (file) | In the wiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| "2026 Ignition | Phased Moon Base Implementation" | Moon Base User's Guide: "A guide for industry, academic, and international partners using architecture products to support phased implementation of the Moon Base" | 2026/04/moon-base-architecture-users-guide.pdf |
source page |
| same | Ignition Website: "resources from NASA's Ignition event, where the agency announced new efforts to align with National Space Policy" | nasa.gov/ignition/ |
not fetched (open question 10) |
| "2025 Architecture Concept Review" | Architecture Definition Document – Revision C: "This third revision …" | 2025/12/add-revision-c-20251211.pdf |
source page |
| same | Architecture Update | 2025/12/2025-architecture-update-for-publication.pdf |
source page |
| same | Lunar Objective Mapping Tables | 2025/12/2025-lunar-objective-decomposition.xlsx |
source page |
| same | Mars Objective Mapping Tables | 2025/12/2025-mars-objective-decomposition.xlsx |
source page |
| same | Architecture-Driven Technology Gaps | 2025/12/2025-architecture-driven-technology-gaps.xlsx |
source page |
| same | Architecture-Driven Data Gaps | 2025/12/2025-architecture-driven-data-gaps.xlsx |
source page |
| "2024 Architecture Concept Review" | Architecture Definition Document – Revision B: "This second revision …" | 2024/12/esdmd-001-add-rev-b.pdf |
not held |
| same | Executive Overview | 2024/12/2024-architecture-executive-overview.pdf |
source page |
| same | Lunar Objective Mapping Tables | 2024/12/acr24-lat-final-20241202.xlsx |
source page |
| same | Mars Objective Mapping Tables | 2024/12/acr24-mat-final-20241031-2.xlsx |
source page |
| "2023 Architecture Concept Review" | Architecture Definition Document – Revision A: "This first revision … (This is Revision A, Management Directive 01, which corrects minor errata and was published on March 27, 2024. See the change log for more detail.)" | 2024/01/rev-a-acr23-esdmd-001-m2madd.pdf |
not held |
| same | Executive Overview | 2024/01/2023-moon-to-mars-architecture-executive-overview.pdf |
source page |
| same | Objectives Mapping Tables: "extracted from the Architecture Definition Document" (XLS) | 2024/01/acr23-acr-20240122-final-publish.xlsx |
not held |
| "2022 Architecture Concept Review" | Architecture Definition Document: "This first version …" | NTRS citation 20230002706 | not held |
| same | Executive Overview | 2023/10/acr22-publication-083123.pdf |
not held |
| same | Objectives Mapping Tables (XLS) | 2023/10/m2m-objectives-mapping-table-acr22.xlsx |
not held |
"Not held" means the link is not in sources/manifest.csv. The paths are under
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/ except where shown.
What the page shows¶
The wiki's reading:
- Every ADD version is listed, but the wiki holds only Rev C. Revision B, Revision A and the 2022 first version are all linked here. The wiki has read about them only through Rev C's revision history (ADD Rev C source page), which also lists the Management Directive this page names for Revision A ("Revision A.1, Management Directive 1", 03/27/2024).
- The 2025 "mapping tables" are the decomposition workbooks. The 2025 entries keep the name
"Objective Mapping Tables" but link files named
…objective-decomposition.xlsx, the two workbooks the wiki calls the lunar and Mars objective decompositions. - Spreadsheets started in 2022. Each review since 2022 has a mapping-table file; the 2022 and 2023 ones are described as "extracted from the Architecture Definition Document". The gap spreadsheets appear first in 2025.
- Executive overview, then Update. 2022 to 2024 have an "Executive Overview"; 2025 has an "Architecture Update" in its place, "an overview of the Moon to Mars Architecture and results from the 2025 Architecture Concept Review", the same description the overviews carry.
- The Users Guide sits under its own heading, "2026 Ignition | Phased Moon Base Implementation", not under a review year.
Related pages¶
ADD Rev C · Architecture definition process · White Papers page · Moon to Mars Architecture main page