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Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet (Springer Praxis Books Astronautical Engineering)

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Author(s): Donald Rapp
Edition: 1
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 554

3540729380......Page 1
Human Missions to Mars......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
1 Why explore Mars?......Page 32
2 Planning space campaigns and missions......Page 43
3 Getting there and back......Page 56
4 Critical Mars mission elements......Page 113
5 In situ utilization of indigenous resources......Page 176
6 Mars mission analysis......Page 264
7 How NASA is dealing with return to the Moon......Page 317
8 Why the NASA approach will likely fail to send humans to Mars prior to c. 2080......Page 357
Appendix......Page 395