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Mars has always been a source of fascination for humankind, and dreams of traveling to the Red Planet are common in literature. In the last 65 years however, increasingly realistic plans have been proposed. The history of projects for human Mars missions is a long one. The most important cases are summarized in this chapter.
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Several are described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_in_fiction
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More detailed information can be found on Encyclopedia Astronautica (www.astronautix.com).
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The SI symbol for ton (t) is used throughout this book.
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Gaetano A. Crocco , “One-Year Exploration-Trip Earth-Mars-Venus-Earth,” Seventh Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Rome, Rendiconti, pp. 227–252, Sept. 1956.
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Report of the 90 Day Study on Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars, NASA-TM-102999, November 1999; http://history.nasa.gov/90_day_study.pdf
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The 14 partners of ISECG are, in alphabetical order: ASI (Italy), CNES (France), CNSA (China), CSA (Canada), CSIRO (Australia), DLR (Germany), ESA (European Space Agency), ISRO (India), JAXA (Japan), KARI (Republic of Korea), NASA (United States of America), NSAU (Ukraine), Roscosmos (Russia), UKSA (United Kingdom).
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G. Genta, “Private space exploration: A new way for starting a spacefaring society?” Acta Astronautica vol. 104, pp. 480–486, 2014.
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S. Do, A. Owens, K. Ho, S. Schreiner, and O. de Weck, “An independent assessment of the technical feasibility of the Mars One mission plan – Updated analysis,” Acta Astronautica vol. 120, pp. 192–228, 2016.
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Genta, G. (2017). Half a century of projects. In: Next Stop Mars. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44311-9_1
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