One Small Step
A concept design for an inflatable habitat on Mars incorporates indigenous ice as a structural element and a shield to protect occupants from galactic cosmic radiation....
"Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars", By Louis Friedman. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 2015
NewsBriefs: Nonprofit Issues a Call to Mars (tgdaily.com and MarsOne.com)
NewsBrief: NASA's Mobile Laboratory to Search For Signs of Life On Mars (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
NewsBriefs: Mars Ice Deposit Largest After Earth's (MIT News)
NewsBriefs: NASA Aims to Put Man on Mars (breitbart.com)
Martian Possibilities
Technology: Miniature Bulldozers May Rove Mars Surface
Structures: Fiberglass Composite Used in Mars Research Station
Materials: Brick May Serve as Mars Building Block
On Martian Soil
Discussions are ongoing about how and when to build human settlements on other worlds. Many scientific discussions have focused on settlements on Mars, and how the initial colonists would...
From Pikes Peak to Mars
A graywater (sink and shower wastewater) reuse system is now being designed to serve a visitors' center and a nearby laboratory atop Pikes Peak, Colorado. If the Pikes Peak...
From Antarctica to Mars
Simulation and Visualization of Martian Rover
Studies in Guidance, Navigation and Control for an Articulated-Body Mars Rover Testbed
Mars Terraformation Revisited
This report is a look into the future; not only that of the solar system, but of humans. With the goal of changing Mars into a living planet, we also have to face the change of the human...
Is It Possible to Colonize Mars?
Is it possible to colonize the planet Mars? A planet that is believed to be the most clement planet in the solar system, next to Earth. Despite the fact that it is a very clement planet,...
A Space Station of Mars
While we are putting stations on the moon and in orbit in this fast changing world of growing scientific knowledge we must look past the step we are currently on to the steps beyond. The...
Habitat Configuration Evaluation Criteria for Moon/Mars
The purpose of this paper is to identify the methodology, evaluation criteria, criteria definitions for evaluating surface habitat configuration concepts for the Moon and Mars. The main...
A Generic Inflatable Structure for a Lunar/Martian Base
The first steps in the human expansion into space, which inevitably will occur during the next century, consist of the establishment of a human-tended base on the Moon followed by human...
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