...building and detailed selection strategies impractical. These are challenges that will be difficult to address until human missions to Mars begin. Public health It is absolutely essential that threats to human health are identified early and prepared...
...use, and would establish the foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps beyond. ISRU is needed to achieve this... life-forms It seems likely that early lunar return missions and Mars landings will still need to rely on Earth-manufactured ...
... will be equipped with a suite of cameras and a microphone. Microphones have been used on previous missions to Mars, but have never actually been used on the surface of the Red Planet. "This will be a great opportunity ...
... to the cost of the film ‘Gravity’, which cost $100 million, and the price of NASA’s most recent mission to Mars, MAVEN, of $671 million. What intrigued the international scientific communities, especially the space agencies, was how...
...set of problems that must be solved for a successful crewed mission to Mars and back. Chalk and cheese A journey to the Moon ...Earth-reliant and dependent on re-supply flights. For a Mars mission of two years or more, astronauts will have to be ...
... the Habitat to be retrieved via an SEP tug and reused in the future, either in cis-lunar space or on a subsequent mission to Mars. Planning ahead for sufficient residual propellant provides some radiation shielding for the return journey, allows...