The Caltech Mars Society Human Mars Mission 2.0

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The Caltech Mars Society Human Mars Mission 2.0

Shannon, Derek / Hirata, Chris / Brown, Nathan / Greenham, Jane

Optimal cost and safety will be instrumental not only in sending humans to Mars, but also in achieving the political support and scientific consensus that will allow such an endeavor to begin. The Caltech Mars Society Mission 2.0 (CMSM2) was created to improve upon the safety, cost, and political viability of previous plans, with emphasis on the NASA Design Reference Mission 3.0 (DRM3). The Caltech Mars Society Mission 2.0 is a complete description of a 5-person expedition to the Red Planet targeted at the 2011 (cargo), 2014 (crew), and succeeding opportunities. Comparative risk analysis indicates that the Caltech Mars Society Mission 2.0 has significantly less risk of failure than the Reference Mission 3.0 or Mars Direct, while requiring less ambitious development than either plan. More information including the full version of this paper is available at http://mars.caltech.edu.

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Title :

The Caltech Mars Society Human Mars Mission 2.0

Contributors:

Shannon, Derek (author) / Hirata, Chris (author) / Brown, Nathan (author) / Greenham, Jane (author)

Conference:

Seventh International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Business in Space ; 2000 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Published in:

Space 2000 ; 883-889

Publication date :

2000-02-18

ISBN :

9780784404799

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1061/40479(204)107

Type of media :

Conference paper

Type of material :

Electronic Resource