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...
12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
... been praised by an Independent Review Board set up to review the multi-year Mars missions. The Mars Sample Return campaign foresees NASA and ESA launching multiple missions to the Red Planet to collect samples, launch them into space and...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
.... “Such is the high level of collaboration between India and the US in the space sector,’’ Arunan said. The Mars mission has given a boost to India’s scientific sector and inspired youngsters to take science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... crew constituency studies. Six men from a wide international grouping were isolated for 520 days in a simulated Mars mission in 2010–11. All appeared healthy and content at the end of the period with no conflict situations reported, although...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... amount of radiation a person would encounter on Earth. This is the equation NASA grapples with as it plans for a Mars mission - and it is one that has never balanced in NASA’s favour. The pharmaceutical team, comprising organic chemists, biologists...
