January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... concept builds upon existing deep space technologies in development today and provides a blueprint for NASA’s Journey to Mars. This plan provides the opportunity for significant scientific discovery, can be evolved to accommodate specific mission...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... to become possible. Conceived and designed for exploration of deep space, the primary purpose of SLS is to enable NASA’s journey to Mars and propel humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time in almost half a century. The...
12 August 2015
The 10th Anniversary of NASA’s Mars Orbiter and the path to a manned Mars mission
The journey to Mars has been a long one. And it’s about to get longer still. Humanity has been fascinated with the Red Planet, as we love to refer to it, since it was first discovered. Some costly Mars projects have met with failure...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...propulsion and life support systems will soon enable the journey to Mars and destinations deeper in our solar system. In ...have millions of people living and working in space. Future Mars bases will be sited underground or covered with Martian soil (as...
10 October 2016
Risk of chronic dementia for astronauts heading to Mars
... exposure could face astronomers on a long-haul trip to Mars say scientists. Studies by scientists at University of California (...the Earth's protective magnetosphere, those on a long journey to Mars would have months/years for such impairments to ...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
.... Home was Earth. As we venture farther from Earth on our journey to Mars, our sense of home will continue to change. The farther we ... ourselves and our planet. The destination of this journey is Mars, but its goal is Earth independence. The crews...
