Posts Tagged ‘MTV’

SLS Exploration Roadmap evaluations provide clues for human Mars missions

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

As NASA managers continue to work through the evaluations into an exploration roadmap for the agency, the end goal of sending humans to Mars is starting to show a level of consistency. Per documentation, the key Design Reference Mission (DRM) evaluations are pointing to the “Flexible Path” approach of visiting a Martian moon, prior to [...]

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Taking aim on Phobos – NASA outline Flexible Path precursor to man on Mars

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

With the official opening statements on the overhaul of NASA’s future expected “soon”, the realignment of NASA’s future goals will create a Human Space Flight path that will likely stretch out for decades. The end goal remains footsteps on Mars, but the approach may involve the use of deep space and Phobos as the precursor [...]

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