Human Missions to Mars Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet
A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been theultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braun envisaged a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70 humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies have been carried out on human missi...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016, 2016
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Edition: | 2nd ed. 2016 |
Series: | Astronautical Engineering
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Why Explore Mars?
- Planning Space Campaigns and Missions
- 60+ Years of Humans to Mars Mission Planning
- Getting There and Back
- Critical Mars Mission Elements
- In Situ Utilization of Indigenous Resources
- Why the NASA approach will likely fail to send humans to Mars for many decades to come