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Table of Contents - Volume 12
Colonizing Mars
The Human Mission to the Red Planet

October - November, 2010

Edited by
Joel Levine, Ph.D.,
NASA, Co-Chair, Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group (HEM-SAG) of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG.
John Mankins, Ph.D.,
Former Chief Scientist at NASA and Chair, Commission III, International Academy of Astronautics.
Rudy Schild, Ph.D.,
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian
In Association and Collaboration with the Mars Society



1. The Human Exploration of Mars: Why Mars? Why Humans?

2. Conquering Mars is a Priority for National Security. Consequences of Losing the Race for Space.

3. Mission To Mars: An International, Global Effort?

4. Financing the Greatest Adventure in the History of Earth.

5. Building the Mars Space Crafts.

6. Mars Landers, Orbiters, Lunar (Phobos) Explorers, Resupply Vehicles, and Space Station

7. The Mars Human Exploration Design Reference Architecture.

8. Choosing the Mars's Landing and Base Sites. Where should we land and why.

9. Choosing and Training the Astronauts.

10. The Psychology of Long Term Space Travel.

11. Sex, Consciousness, Cohesiveness, and the Mental Effects of Prolonged Isolation.

12. The Medical, Neurological, and Physiology of Long Term Space Travel.

13. Radiation.

14. The Moon and Memory Lane: Lunar Astronauts Reflect on the Future and the Past.

15. Long Duration Space Flights: Perspectives of NASA Astronauts

16. The Journey to Mars.

17. Anticipating Worst Case Scenarios

18. Mars Entry, Descent and Landing for Human Missions.

19. Planetary Protection and Contamination.

20. Martian Microbes, Virus and Contagion: Protecting Astronauts from Disease

21. Robotics and the Human Mission to Mars

22. Exploring Mars

23. Searching For Life

24. Examining Structural and Geophysical Anomalies.

25. The Human Habitat/Settlement on Mars.

26. Colonizing Mars.

27. Terraforming Mars: Making Mars More Habitable for Humans.

28. After Mars: The Next Technological Revolution





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