Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet

by Donald Rapp

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319330926
• ISBN13: 9783319330921
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 582 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"