Human Missions to Mars : Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet - Rapp, Donald; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Why explore Mars? -- Planning space campaigns and missions -- Getting there and back -- Critical Mars mission elements -- In situ utilization of indigenous resources -- Mars mission analysis -- How NASA is dealing with return to the Moon -- Why the NASA approach will likely fail to send humans to Mars prior to c. 2080.
Keywords: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Control engineering; Robotics; Mechatronics; Space sciences; Automotive engineering; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Automotive Engineering