Mars Exploration
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Recent papers in Mars Exploration
Ensuring the safe and controlled production of food during long-term manned missions is among the most important goals that future space crews will need to attain. Even using automation for crew time savings and food production... more
ll libro ripercorre la storia di Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, l'insigne astronomo italiano, indagando, attraverso i testi di più autori, le diverse fasi della sua attività umana ed esplorativa: dalla fanciullezza e gioventù... more
Astronauts live and work in highly unusual and challenging environments where they must withstand multiple stressors. Their abilities to maintain positive psychological outlooks and good interpersonal relations are crucial for personal... more
Si sta preparando il Grande Spettacolo Spaziale Bis. Il capitalismo lo vuole. È in crisi da almeno un secolo, ma da un decennio a questa parte sembra morto: la produzione langue, enormi quantità di capitale fittizio attendono congelate... more
This article seeks to outline the importance of Mars Exploration and why humans want to be a multiplanetary specie.
This article presents the Mars project, developed by the LabCine at Mackenzie Presbyterian University with support from the MackPesquisa grant. The project aims to produce a 4K film on the planet Mars to be transmitted by advanced... more
Candidate human missions to Mars, including NASA's Design Reference Architecture 5.0, have focused on conjunction-class missions with long crewed durations and minimum energy trajectories to reduce total propellant requirements and... more
In Brazil, it is still a challenge to motivate children and youth to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. We believe that Space can be a trigger to inspire engagement with scientific aerospace careers, a... more
Most space exploration technologies (e.g. space suits, rovers) are smaller than a school bus. Once earth's gravity well is escaped, space exploration uses and will use (e.g. on Mars) such small and relatively simple technologies for much... more
This book explores some of the contributions of psychology to yesterday's great space race, today's orbiter and International Space Station missions, and tomorrow's journeys beyond Earth's orbit. Early missions into space were typically... more
The history of human Mars mission planning from the early 1950s through the 1960s is examined. For centuries, Mars has been an object of fascination and, since the 1800s, sciencefiction authors have imagined what it would be like for... more
This paper identifies breakpoints for various power and propulsion technologies, with a special focus on fission-based sources in support of NASA's Mars exploration program. Transportation, orbital, and surface missions are addressed... more
The journey to explore our red neighbor will entail the application of all our terrestrial lessons learned and of some we have yet to discover. A Mars mission represents the extreme in terms of both distance and uncharted environment. The... more
Self-supporting colony for 1000 people. Project for Mars Society contest 2019.