@article{1453824,
      recid = {1453824},
      author = {Rapp, Donald,},
      title = {Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for  exploring the red planet /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxxvii, 622 pages) :},
      abstract = {A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars  has been the ultimate goal of planetary exploration since  the 1950s, when von Braun conjectured a flotilla of 10  interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70  humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies were carried  out on human missions to Mars, but after 70 years of study,  we remain in the early planning stages. The third edition  of this book provides an annotated history of key Mars  mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible.  Retained from the second edition, Donald Rapp looks at  human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective.  This includes analyzing the steps in the various proposed  mission architectures, as well as the various vehicles and  supporting technologies that are involved. In this  connection, he discusses the status and potential of a wide  range of technologies essential to a human mission to Mars,  including life support, radiation, and low-gravity effects,  getting there and back, in situ resource utilization, and  mission safety. Detailed appendices describe availability  of solar energy on the Moon and Mars, as well as the  distribution of near-surface H2O.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1453824},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20726-6},
}