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    The NASA Mars Design Reference Mission ("DRM") refer to a series of NASA conceptual design studies of the missions to send humans to Mars. The related...
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    related to Human missions to Mars. Human Exploration of Mars: The Reference Mission Design Reference Mission 1.0 Reference Mission Version 3.0, Addedum...
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  • Thumbnail for List of crewed Mars mission plans
    This list of crewed Mars mission plans is a listing of concept studies for a crewed mission to Mars during the 20th and 21st centuries. It is limited...
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    The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (from Sanskrit Maṅgala, 'Mars', and yāna, 'craft, vehicle'), was a space probe orbiting...
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    Mars Direct is a proposal for a human mission to Mars which purports to be both cost-effective and possible with current technology. It was originally...
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    human Mars exploration plans have evolved through the NASA Mars Design Reference Missions, a series of design studies for human exploration of Mars. In...
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  • The Emirates Mars Mission (Arabic: مشروع الإمارات لاستكشاف المريخ, romanized: mašrū' al-Imārāt l-āstikšāf al-Murīkh) is a United Arab Emirates Space Agency...
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  • Thumbnail for NASA Design Reference Mission 3.0
    NASA Design Reference Mission 3.0 was a NASA study for a human space mission to the planet Mars in the 1990s. It was a plan for a human exploration architecture...
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    spacecraft missions (including unsuccessful ones) to the planet Mars, such as orbiters, landers, and rovers. Mission Type Legend   Mission to Mars   Gravity...
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    A Mars rover is a remote-controlled motor vehicle designed to travel on the surface of Mars. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they...
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    The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical...
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    costly version of Design Reference Architecture (DRA) 5.0, itself a combination of nearly 20 years of Mars planning design work. The mission profile was for...
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    Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars...
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    "stupendously unreasonable". For reference, Musk's timeline for the colonization of Mars involves a crewed mission as early as 2029 and the development...
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  • Thumbnail for Constellation program
    design study utilizing Constellation launch vehicles, known as Design Reference Architecture 5.0, was completed in 2009. In DRA 5.0, a Mars mission would...
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    Mars to Stay missions propose astronauts sent to Mars for the first time should intend to stay. Unused emergency return vehicles would be recycled into...
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    Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Mars Express mission is exploring the planet Mars...
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  • season of Mars SpaceX Starship, in development by SpaceX Space Launch System (SLS), in development by NASA and Boeing Mars Design Reference Mission, the standing...
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  • and unsuccessful Mars landers. As of 2022, 21 lander missions and 8 sub-landers (Rovers and Penetrators) attempted to land on Mars. Of 21 landers, the...
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  • Mission to Mars was an attraction located in Tomorrowland at Disneyland and at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. It originally opened as Rocket to the...
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    Viking program (redirect from Viking mars)
    American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, which landed on Mars in 1976. The mission effort began in 1968 and was managed by the NASA Langley Research...
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  • Thumbnail for Mars Climate Orbiter
    a new Mars Surveyor program began as a set of missions designed with limited objectives, low costs, and frequent launches. The first mission in the new...
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    an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on April 19, 2021...
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    transparent ice to allow non-harmful light to enter the habitat. Mars habitat design can also involve the study of local conditions, including pressures...
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    Exploration Rover (MER), Phoenix, and Mars Science Laboratory missions, the operations teams have worked on "Mars time", with a work schedule synchronized...
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    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Spirit landed successfully within the impact crater Gusev on Mars at...
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    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as...
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    Mars 3 was a robotic space probe of the Soviet Mars program, launched May 28, 1971, nine days after its twin spacecraft Mars 2. The probes were identical...
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  • Thumbnail for Mars Geyser Hopper
    The Mars Geyser Hopper (MGH) was proposed in 2012 as a NASA design reference mission for a Discovery-class spacecraft concept that would investigate the...
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    formed from lunar regolith Mars Design Reference Mission – Conceptual design studies for crewed missions to Mars Mars to Stay – Mars colonization architecture...
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