Martian Outpost, The Challenges of Establishing a Human Settlement on Mars



Martian Outpost provides a detailed insight into the various technologies, mission architectures, medical requirements, and training needed to send humans to Mars. It focuses on mission objectives and benefits, and the risks and complexities that are compounded when linked to an overall planet exploration program involving several expeditions and setting up a permanent presence on the surface.

Dr. Erik Seedhouse is eminently qualified to write this informative handbook for all potential spaceflight participants. He was an Astronaut Training Consultant and wrote the Spaceflight Participants Flight Surgeona (TM)s Manual for Bigelow Aerospace in 2005. He also developed astronaut training protocols for future spaceflight participants and wrote and edited several chapters of Bigelow Aerospacea (TM)s Astronaut Training Manual. He has written many technical and scientific articles as well as articles for Spaceflight magazine. Erik Seedhouse is a research scientist specializing in environmental life sciences and physiology, for which he obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology while working for the European Space Agency between 1996 and 1998.


Summary

1 Why go?
2 Interplanetary plans
3 Mission architectures
4 Abort modes and the challenges of entry, descent and landing
5 Propulsion systems
6 Mars hardware
7 Crew selection and training
8 Biomedical and behavioral issues
9 Voyage to Mars
10 Exploration activities and surface systems
11 Extreme EXPeditionary Architecture