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  title info:
    title: Human Missions to Mars
    sub title: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet
  name:
    name part: Rapp, Donald.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXIV, 520 p. online resource.
  abstract: In “Human Missions to Mars” Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He begins by describing the pros and cons of robotic exploration versus human exploration and then examines the ideas for sending humans to Mars from the point of view of both the enthusiast and the skeptic. Chapter 2 describes how space missions are planned and how they may be achieved as a sequence of separate steps. Chapter 3 deals with the complex issues relating to the outward journey to Mars and the return leg. The author deals with propulsion systems and with the analysis of the various trajectories which may be utilized for such a mission. He divides mission into a number of stages: Earth’s surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO; Mars orbit insertion and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit and Earth orbit insertion and landing. Chapter 4 discusses 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 insertion and 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 are discussed in Chapter 5. The use of indigenous resources on the Moon is described as a precursor to the availability of similar resources on Mars and issues such as fuelling Mars-bound craft from lunar resources, the use of lunar ferries, staging, assembly and refueling in near-Earth space are all discussed. The important applications arising from the transportation of hydrogen to Mars are also described. Chapter 6 deals with a range of previous Mars mission studies and the technologies they employed. Chapter 7 looks as how NASA is planning for its return to the Moon, and the use of the Moon as a stepping stone to Mars. Chapter 8 presents…
  table of contents: Why explore Mars? -- Planning space campaigns and missions -- Getting there and back -- Critical Mars mission elements -- In situ utilization of indigenous resources -- Mars mission analysis -- How NASA is dealing with return to the Moon -- Why the NASA approach will likely fail to send humans to Mars prior to c. 2080.
  note: by Donald Rapp.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Automotive engineering
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Control engineering
  subject:
    topic: Robotics
  subject:
    topic: Mechatronics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Automotive Engineering
  classification: TL787-4050.22
  classification: 629.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783540729396
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72939-6
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204164221.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-72939-6