As we venture back to the Moon with a longer term goal of future Mars missions, lunar missions can provide an important testbed for technologies, systems and operations that directly feed forward to future Mars needs. Gateway missions can provide good in-space transportation feed forward to human Mars missions. Modest operations on the Moon such as the GER (Global Exploration Roadmap)-class missions, can provide key Mars human performance and surface mission capability development and risk reduction. A human return to the Moon can, if done correctly, serve as an excellent down payment to Mars.


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    Title :

    Moon as a Stepping Stone to Human Mars Missions


    Contributors:
    J. F. Connolly (author) / M. Rucker (author) / S. Hoffman (author) / J. Stecklein (author) / N. Williams (author) / T. Percy (author) / T. Polsgrove (author) / W. Cirillo (author) / R. Merrill (author) / B. K. Joosten (author)

    Publication date :

    2018


    Size :

    10 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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