August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
... the duration to eight and eventually 12 months. In contrast to a simulated Moon mission, real-time contact with Ground Control will be impossible for Mars missions. Analogue studies have given some indications of the psychological challenges that...
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 ...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
.... NASA envisions SEP as usable for moving large elements through deep space for future missions, eventually transporting cargo to support a human Mars mission. The commercial spacecraft industry is also interested in advanced SEP for use in their...
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...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... if another Scorpion (or a specialist boost stage) contributes to the initial heliocentric injection, then Mars and Venus orbits could be within reach. The Mars mission would have sufficient payload for specialised landing systems that would enable...
