May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
...-up test. NASA/JPL-Caltech Alongside Dr Mohan, many other women were in the spotlight for this ambitious Mars mission. Diana Trujillo, an immigrant who moved to the US from Colombia with only $300 and whose story was...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... Society’s goal is to create support for human Mars missions, inspiring and enabling new business opportunities and start-...profit organisation, aim at creating support for human Mars missions, inspiring and enabling new business opportunities and ...
04 August 2016
Experts to Discuss Mars Sample Return at IAC 2016
... 09:30 am, will discuss the possibility of human and robotic collaboration on the Mars Sample Return mission. In light of NASA's planned Journey to Mars mission and crewed missions to the Moon, new opportunities may arise that would facilitate sample...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... and the assumed scenario for the replacement of a dental restoration is based on the fictional accident of an astronaut during a Mars mission. In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke escaped injury after he accidentally fell over during the setup...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... of a fast transit to the red planet. Nanosats could ride along as ballast to make up the launch mass on larger Mars missions, or make their way there as free-flying spacecraft. With a few km/s of Delta-V (propulsion) capability, free-flying nanosats...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... (REID) probability to be less than three percent - which is not an easy challenge according to some risk assessments for Mars missions. GCR are extremely high energy charged particles that originate from outside of our solar system. They...
