| Title: | Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet / |
| Authors: | Donald Rapp, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Edition statement: | 2nd ed. |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : Springer, 2016 |
| Series: | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering |
| ISBN / ISSN / EAN : | 978-3-319-22248-6 |
| Format: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 582 p.) / ill. (some col.) |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | TL799.M3 |
| Subjects: | Exploration of outer space ; Mars (Planet)--Exploration ; Outer space--Exploration |
| Description: | 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 divides each mission into a number of stages: Earth's surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit; and Earth return. For each segment, he analyzes requirements for candidate technologies. In this connection, he discusses the status and potential of 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 entry descent and landing. For any human mission to the Red Planet the possible utilization of any resources indigenous to Mars would be of great value; such possibilities are discussed at length. He also discusses the relationship of lunar exploration to Mars exploration. Detailed appendices describe the availability of solar energy on the Moon and Mars, and the potential for utilizing indigenous water on Mars. |
| Format : | Online |
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