Engineering Robust and Autocatalytic Architectures for Human Missions to Mars

For decades, Mars architectures had been constrained to up to 6 crew members for surface endurances up to 600 days because the increased mass for larger missions implied significantly higher costs. More recently, reusable rockets and mass manufacturing approaches are starting to transform the human...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lordos, George
Other Authors: de Weck, Olivier L.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153785
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6178-6359