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Concept for a Mars base, with ice home, pressurized rover, and Mars suits, 2016. The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. [1] Long-term proposals have included sending settlers and terraforming the planet.
Elon Musk set out SpaceX's timeline for getting humanity to Mars this week. He said SpaceX plans to send five Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, with crewed missions following two to four years later.
This week, explore the technology that could allow humans to live on Mars, uncover the truth of a Neanderthal flower burial, see a leggy birdlike dinosaur, and more.
Mars Base Camp. An Architecture for Sending Humans to Mars by 2028 – Oct 2016 summary, 25 pages; SpacePolicyOnline.com: "Lockheed Martin to Propose 2028 Orbiting "Mars Base Camp" Today" Newsweek: "Lockheed Martin Plans Mars Base Camp" International Business Times: "Lockheed Martin building an orbiting Mars base to send humans to Red Planet by ...
The new law allots the space agency $19.5 billion for the 2018 fiscal year and adds a new objective of sending humans to Mars. President Trump signs bill authorizing NASA funding, Mars exploration ...
Austere Human Missions to Mars is a concept for a human mission to Mars by the United States space agency, NASA. [1] Released in 2009, it proposed a modified and even less costly version of Design Reference Architecture (DRA) 5.0, itself a combination of nearly 20 years of Mars planning design work. [ 1 ]
Mars Direct is a proposal for a human mission to Mars which purports to be both cost-effective and possible with current technology. It was originally detailed in a research paper by Martin Marietta engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, and later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars .
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth. Elon Musk's dreams of building a city on Mars got a major boost from the Polaris Dawn mission.. They tested spacesuits, radiation exposure, and ...