Low cost manned Mars mission based on indigenous propellant production

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Feb 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993asd..confs....b&link_type=abstract

AIAA, AHS, and ASEE, Aerospace Design Conference, Irvine, CA, Feb. 16-19, 1993, 17 p.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Earth-Mars Trajectories, Low Cost, Manned Mars Missions, Mars Surface, Methane, Oxygen Production, Astrodynamics, Earth Orbital Environments, Orbit Transfer Vehicles, Return To Earth Space Flight

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The paper describes a low-cost approach to the manned exploration of Mars (which involves an unmanned mission followed two years later by a manned mission) based on near-term technologies and in situ propellant production. Particular attention is given to the basic mission architecture and its major components, including the orbital analysis, the unmanned segment, the Earth Return Vehicle, the aerobrake design, life sciences, guidance, communications, power, propellant production, the surface rovers, and Mars science. Also discussed are the cost per mission over an assumed 8-yr initiative.

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