Document presents conceptual design for space vehicle to carry human explorers from Earth to Mars, then back to Earth. Design takes into account promising new technologies making Mars mission possible. Radiation-storm shelters and advanced cryogenic propulsion readily integrated into familiar vehicles. Other technologies demand fundamentally new vehicles. They include modular hardware, robotic assembly and maintenance, rotating artificial gravity, and high-energy aerobraking.


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    Title :

    Carrying Humans To And From Mars


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    1991-08-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    English


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