MinMars/References

The following is a list of key references for the MinMars project.

Key References

• One-way to Mars, George W. Herbert, AAS 96-322, The Case for Mars VI : Making Mars an Affordable Destination, Boulder, CO, 1996.

• The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team, NASA/SP-6107 (PDF) [July 1997]

• Addendum to the NASA Mars DRM, NASA/SP—6107–ADD (PDF) [June 1998]

• NASA Mars surface reference mission, NASA/TP—2001–209371 (PDF) [December 2001]

• Human Mars Mission Weights and Mass Properties, NASA CR-2000-209874 PT1 (PDF) [Brothers, October 1999]

• Exploration Blueprint Data Book, NASA TM-2007-214763 (PDF) [Bret Drake, July 2007] Great source of NASA concepts for human exploration from the late 1990s and early 2000s

• Mars Direct - A Simple, Robust, and Cost Effective Architecture for the Space Exploration Initiative (PDF) [Zubrin, 1991] Overview of the Mars Direct exploration architecture

• Georgia Tech SSDL - Technical Papers Georgia Institute of Technology Space Systems Design Lab - Technical Papers on Mars EDL

• Austere Human Mission to Mars NASA JPL (H. Price et al) Minimalist Mars Design Reference Mission [Space 2009 AIAA Conference Paper]

• Austere Human Mission to Mars NASA JPL (H. Price et al) [AIAA Presentation Slides]

• NASA Design Reference Architecture 5.0 NASA-SP-2009-566 [July 2009]

• NASA Design Reference Architecture 5.0 Addendum NASA-SP-2009-566-ADD [July 2009]