Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet (repost)
Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet by Donald Rapp
English | ISBN: 3540729380, 3642092012 | 2007 | PDF | 554 pages | 12 mb
English | ISBN: 3540729380, 3642092012 | 2007 | PDF | 554 pages | 12 mb
This book presents a highly readable yet realistic view of the possibilities for human missions to Mars. It provides for the first time a ‘level-headed’ assessment of plans for human exploration of Mars to counteract the tendency of space agencies to take an over-optimistic approach to such interplanetary missions. The author presents a detailed analysis of why, in his opinion, the current NASA approach will fail to send humans to Mars before 2080.