Human missions to Mars [electronic resource] : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet / Donald Rapp.
2016
TL796.6.M3 R36 2016
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Title
Human missions to Mars [electronic resource] : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet / Donald Rapp.
Author
Rapp, Donald, 1934- author.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9783319222493 (electronic book)
331922249X (electronic book)
9783319222486
331922249X (electronic book)
9783319222486
Published
Cham : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-22249-3 doi
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TL796.6.M3 R36 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.45/53
Summary
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 60 years of study, we remain in the early planning stages. The second edition of this book now includes an annotated history of Mars mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible. Retained from the first edition, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth's surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit and Earth return. For each segment, he analyzes requirements for candidate technologies. In this connection, he discusses the status and potential of a wide range of elements critical to a human Mars mission, including life support consumables, radiation effects and shielding, microgravity effects, abort options and mission safety, possible habitats on the Martian surface and aero-assisted orbit entry decent and landing. For any human mission to the Red Planet the possible utilization of any resources indigenous to Mars would be of great value and such possibilities, the use of indigenous resources is discussed at length. He also discusses the relationship of lunar exploratio n to Mars exploration. Detailed appendices describe the availability of solar energy on the Moon and Mars, and the potential for utilizing indigenous water on Mars. The second edition provides extensive updating and additions to the first edition, including many new figures and tables, and more than 70 new references, as of 2015.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 5, 2015).
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Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering.
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Table of Contents
Why Explore Mars?
Planning Space Campaigns and Missions
60+ Years of Humans to Mars Mission Planning
Getting There and Back
Critical Mars Mission Elements
In Situ Utilization of Indigenous Resources
Why the NASA approach will likely fail to send humans to Mars for many decades to come.
Planning Space Campaigns and Missions
60+ Years of Humans to Mars Mission Planning
Getting There and Back
Critical Mars Mission Elements
In Situ Utilization of Indigenous Resources
Why the NASA approach will likely fail to send humans to Mars for many decades to come.