October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... context of a lunar base camp and planned missions to Mars. With the emergence of new space industries and...a conflicting manner, possibly manipulated by nature or technology. On Mars, humans would experience a gloomy red/orange landscape with limited ...
28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
... areas of potential astrobiological interest and planetary protection concern," write the team in their paper. "Future missions to Mars should target this region to acquire experimental data in relation to the basal hydrologic system, its chemistry...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...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...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...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 ...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... 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...
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 ...
