Links to Post Materials

Design Reference Architecture (DRA) 5.0 Materials

Mars DRA 5.0 Executive Summary - 31-page summary
Human Exploration of Mars DRA 5.0 - 100-page report
Mars DRA 5.0 Addendum - 406-page DRA 5.0 Addendum

NASA's Mars Reference Mission - Reference Mission Version 3.0
A Mission Design for Internaltion Manned Mars Mission - Information for Crew Assignments
CHAOS 2004 - Theme: Mission Mars, Part 1 - Download Paper on Site Selection.
A Crewed Mission to Mars - NSSDC, types of Missions
Mars Landing Site Catalog - More on Site Selection
Date Calculator - Make Launch Date Calculations

Learn about Planet Mars

NASA's Mars Exporation Home
Live from Earth and Mars - from the World Book Encyclopedia and Learning Resources
Exploring Mars - from the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Hubble Space Telescope Mars Images
Exploring Mars: Mars the Planet -from Space Today On-line
World Book at NASA - Planet Mars

Mars Missions

A Crewed Mission to Mars - National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
Mars Exploration Strategies an AIAA paper with helpful information
Race to Mars - Discovery channel
Manned Mission to Mars Wikipedia Article on Mars Missions
Exploring Mars:- Mars Exporation - from Space Online Today
Internation Space University (ISU)1991 - Design for an International Mars Mission
* * * This document was used in the Crew Selection exercise
MEPAG - Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (If you NEED to know more)

The Long Voyage to Mars

How Long would a trip to Mars take? - from Astronomy Cafe's Mars Page
Trip to Mars from Classroom of the Future. This voyage starts from ISS.
Radiation Hazard - Force shield paper from the Institute of Physics
NASA Worldbook - Good Information about Living in Space
Human Adaptation to Space from Wikipedia
Trip to Mars in 90 days? - far out!

Hohman Transfer Orbit

Flight to Mars: How Long? Along what path? -from Stargazers to Starshisp website
Interplanetary Trajectories - JPL's Basics of Space Flight
Orbital Shapes Animation - this Hohmann transfer ellipse from Earth to Jupiter

Mars Site Selection

Mars Landing Catalog
Chryse Planitia - Viking 1
Destination: Gusev Crater - from Science@NASA
Utopia Planitia - Viking 2
Hellas Planitia - Wikipedia Link to Images of Hellas Basin from JPL
Google Mars Check out your site

Mars Reference Mission
Mars Reference Mission Download Page
Mars Atlas from NASA's Exploration Page - Surface features

Links to Educational Activities

Let's go to Mars activity -What will you take with you?
Challenger Center links to activities

Mars Archive

Listof all Mars Manned Missions - From the Encyclopedia Astronautica by Mark Wade
NASA Lewis (Glenn) Proposed Mars Mission in 1960 - from the Encyclopedia Astronautica
Von Braun's plan for Mars

More information can be found at Astra's Stargate on the 3 Faces of Mars page