April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close.” The HI-SEAS Valoria 1 Mars mission on Hawaii and (bottom): Engineering Officer Kevin Pratt (left) and Commander Michaela Musilova perform an emergency engineering...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
..., encase them in sealed tubes, and leave them on the planet's surface for potential return to Earth on a future Mars mission. The Mars 2020 project at JPL in Pasadena, California, manages rover development for the Science...
26 April 2021
Ingenuity makes its third flight on Mars
... demonstrating critical capabilities that will enable the addition of an aerial dimension to future Mars missions.” The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which is parked at “Van Zyl Overlook” and serving as a communications base...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... slots a terraforming opportunity into the plans of space agencies and commercial aerospace firms ambitious for crewed Mars missions. It would endow them with valuable and timely resources. This leads to revenue streams, return on investment (ROI...
12 August 2015
The 10th Anniversary of NASA’s Mars Orbiter and the path to a manned Mars mission
...“ambassador,” galvanising both the public and the space community in the effort to launch an eventual manned mission to Mars. It’s going to be a long and risky journey. But spacecraft like the MRO have shown us that a) It is possible and b) It is ...
29 March 2018
Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars
...that “humans will become a multi-planet species by making it to Mars, but no farther”. Although he realises that some readers will find...is also a colour photo insert, an appendix on “A Human Mars Mission”, a set of chapter notes and an index. What the...
