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Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet /

Donald Rapp, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2016

The second edition of this book now includes an annotated history of Mars mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible. As in the first edition, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He divi[...]

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Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet /

Donald Rapp, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2016

The second edition of this book now includes an annotated history of Mars mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible. As in the first edition, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He divi[...]

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Use of extraterrestrial resources for human space missions to moon or mars

Donald Rapp, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2012

This book examines the reality rather than the ream of In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). Using all the available data as well as the author's own extensive knowledge, it carries out approximate estimates of the costs of implementing ISRU on [...]

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Use of extraterrestrial resources for human space missions to moon or mars

Donald Rapp, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2012

This book examines the reality rather than the ream of In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). Using all the available data as well as the author's own extensive knowledge, it carries out approximate estimates of the costs of implementing ISRU on [...]

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Assessing climate change : temperatures, solar radiation, and heat balance

Donald Rapp | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences | 2008

1. Historical variations in the Earth's climate 2. Temperatures in the past millennium 3. Temperatures in the past century 4. Variability of the Sun 5. The Earth's heat balance and the greenhouse effect 6. CO2 production and climate change 7. I[...]

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Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet

Donald Rapp | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2007

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Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet /

Donald Rapp, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2007

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 [...]

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