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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.
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 .
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.
SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars on a ship called the Interplanetary Transport System, and in a video published today, the company revealed how the ITS will actually perform. The ITS is capable ...
It wouldn't be great for sending humans to Mars, but it could make sending future rovers much more affordable for NASA and other agency. But a couple of mathematicians have figured out how to ...
Concept for NASA Design Reference Mission Architecture 5.0 (2009) NASA Design Reference Mission 5.0 [15] was done in 2009. [16] with an addendum in July 2009, [17] and a second addendum in March 2014 [18] There is also a version of DRA5 called Austere Human Missions to Mars, produced in 2009 that has a reduced amount of hardware and number of ...
The concept was published in May 2016 by Lockheed Martin, and it is a design for a spacecraft for carrying humans to Mars orbit and conducting operations in Mars orbit. [6] Mars Base Camp harnesses many NASA technologies in development, or technology goals at the time of the 2010s.