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The United States has several robotic missions currently exploring Mars, with a sample-return planned for the future. The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is intended to serve as the launch/splashdown crew delivery vehicle, with a Deep Space Habitat module providing additional living space for the 16-month-long journey.
The first engineering analysis of a crewed mission to Mars was made by Wernher von Braun in 1948. [9] It was originally published as Das Marsprojekt in West Germany in 1952, and as The Mars Project in English in the United States in 1953. Von Braun's Mars "flotilla" included ten 4,000-ton ships with 70 crew members. [10] The expected launch ...
United States: Flyby Launch failure Payload fairing failed to separate Atlas LV-3 Agena-D: 7 Mariner 4: Mariner 4: 28 November 1964: NASA United States: Flyby Successful First successful flyby of Mars on 15 July 1965 Atlas LV-3 Agena-D: 8 Zond 2: Zond 2 (3MV-4A No.2) 30 November 1964 Soviet Union: Flyby Spacecraft failure Communications lost ...
The Mars Project is a technical specification for a human mission to Mars that von Braun wrote in 1948, with a provisional launch date of 1965. [1] He envisioned an "enormous scientific expedition" involving a fleet of ten spacecraft with 70 crew members that would spend 443 days on the surface of Mars before returning to Earth. [ 1 ]
Musk said SpaceX plans to launch five uncrewed Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, followed by the first manned missions either two or four years later. Elon Musk wants to put people on Mars by 2030 ...
5.2 Proposed or planned spaceports in North America. 6 South America. ... Lunar and Mars probes. ... United States: Spaceport America, ...
The Constellation program (abbreviated CxP) was a crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009.The major goals of the program were "completion of the International Space Station" and a "return to the Moon no later than 2020" with a crewed flight to the planet Mars as the ultimate goal.
Following launch using a Titan/Centaur launch vehicle and a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking 2 Orbiter began returning global images of Mars prior to orbit insertion. The orbiter was inserted into a 1,500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h Mars orbit on August 7, 1976, and trimmed to a 27.3 h site certification orbit with a periapsis of 1,499 km and an ...