April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... to generate all the components of rocket fuel and life support on Mars. Indeed, Mars mission analyst Dr Donald Rapp believes the simplest solution for the first Mars mission is to use Starship to carry the hydrogen as water from Earth. Starship...
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...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... them from harsh conditions. Power must be generated for the mission duration. They will learn to use the resources available on Mars from precursor missions like the Mars 2020 rover, which will carry an experiment to investigate the technology...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... the environment, and medical facilities. In contrast, the ISS is Earth-reliant and dependent on re-supply flights. For a Mars mission of two years or more, astronauts will have to be both self-sufficient and Earth-independent. In situ resource...
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 ...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... and there are some places that they simply can’t go. What would be really handy on the next Mars mission is a small helicopter that could whizz over the surface, taking pictures as it went. We're in luck then, as NASA has...
