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NASA’s Human Mission to Mars, for exploration & eventual settlement, is slated to 1ˢᵗ arrive on the Red Planet in the 2030’s. National Geographic’s 6-part series “Mars”, from Director Ron Howard, envisions the actual mission, visualizing potential mission strategies combining NASA tech with that from independent Space Industries such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
National Geographic
● Channel (6-part series): Mars
● Website: Make Mars Home
● Album: Mars: The Epic National Geographic Channel Miniseries in Pictures
● Book: Astronauts on Mars: New Book Shows What It Will Take to Get There
● Review: Nat Geo's 'Mars' Series Takes Viewers on Journey to Red Planet
● Exhibit "Experience Mars" installation
●● Nat Geo's 'Mars' Invades NYC with Immersive Red Planet Exhibit
●● NYC students take virtual trip to space at 'Experience Mars' show
●● Mars Astronaut Recruitment Center' Pops Up in Lower Manhattan
(Note: top photo shows "Mars Landing Simulator" combo VR Headset+Suspensed Motion Simulator Chair system)
●● Exhibit "Mars Landing Simulator" 360° Video/Google Cardboard Virtual Reality VR Mode video
(Note: 360°/VR video is view through Simulator VR Headset from/during Suspended Motion Simulator Chair system journey)
●●● 360°/VR video: Intense 360°/ VR video takes you for a quick jaunt to Mars
SpaceX
● Elon Musk and SpaceX Announce a Plan to Colonize Mars and Save Humanity
Source: Google Earth Blog
Google Earth Mars: Available via the "ringed planet" dropdown menu in Google Earth
● Google Earth Mars How To Maps version
Backgrounder
Source: Journey To Space
“Journey To Space”: An earlier NASA visualization of the Mars human mission focusing on utilizing mostly next-generation NASA tech, primarily the Space Launch System (SLS), which replaces Shuttle boosters & Apollo-era Saturn 5 moon rocket, & Orion Spacecraft, which replaces Shuttle & Apollo-era Apollo spacecraft). Narrated by Star Trek's The Next Generation Captain Sir Patrick Stewart & originally shown in IMAX 3D, it's now available on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD & 4K UHD + 3D Blu-ray + Blu-ray 2-disc combo. While most of the film chronicles mission component core tech development, the final ~15 minutes bring it all together with hi-res computer graphic visualization of the initial human Mars settlement & round-trip voyage to the Red Planet - a sneak preview of just these 2 experiences (narrated in Spanish (close caption machine translate to English subtitles available) is currently available on YouTube at the 2 clips start-stop time code entries below, where the start time code is linked to begin playback from the start position value indicated (may not work on mobile, so manually advance the playback slider to the start time code provided below)
Journey To Space
● Web
● Amazon
YouTube "Journey to Space" clips:
● Mars Settlement: start 32:01 - stop 32:18
● Mars Voyage Depart-Arrive-Depart start 34:01 - stop 38:57
History
Source: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Houston Section
Source: Disney
Origin of Space Program: The NASA Human Mission to Mars is the current culmination of the American Space Program, as originally inspired & visualized by World War II surrendered German V-2 rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun, who, in the early 1950's, published his vision for a human mars mission to Mars in his book "Das Marsprojekt" (EN), followed by his vision for a general space exploration program culminating in Mars settlement, in his highly illustrated 8-part article series for Collier's magazine titled "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" (covers), followed by 3 animated episodes with Walt Disney that were broadcast on the Disneyland Television series episodes of Tomorrowland. The Collier's articles & Disney shows, coupled with, 2 months before the last episode of Tomorrowland, Russia's launch of Sputnik, caused American President Eisenhower to contact von Braun & Disney, resulting in Eisenhower's creating America's Space Program on the spot, by Eisenhower upgrading the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Rocket Plane development program, X-1 through X-15 (et al) to become the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) & later installing von Braun as "director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center [MSFC] and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon" (MSFC); von Braun was present at NASA Mission Control during the historic Apollo 11 moon landing (photo). Further, the Collier's/Disney work helped launch the development of both the Russian & European space programs, as the work both prompted a call from Russia's L. Sedov ("Mr. Sputnik") requesting the Disney films to help inspire the formation of the Russian space effort, which occurred thereafter with Sedov becoming the 1st chairman of the USSR Space Exploration program, as well as a visit from Belgian cartoonist Hergé's Tintin "Studios Hergé" staff which resulted in the 2 Tintin Moon books/animations Destination & Explorers, inspiring & galvanizing the European public to form the European Space Agency (ESA Tintin photos: mission, staff, book, collectible, kids).
Collier's
(Note 1: An online sampler of the articles is available in Italian (& translated into English)
(Note 2: A member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Houston Section had, & donated, a complete set of the von Braun editions of the magazines to AIAA, who announced they'd high-resolution scan & reprint the entire 8 Collier's series in the back of 8 editions of their Horizons Newsletter, as well as make the 8 newsletters available for download as high resolutions PDFs (typically each 50-60MB). For a Space Exhibit project I'm involved with locally at the adjacent NASA Ames-Google Planetary Ventures HQ campuses spanning Silicon Valley's Moffett Field & Mountain View townships (article), I was able to extract all 8 von Braun articles from the AIAA Newsletters, combine them into a single "Collier's magazine like" PDF "All-In-One" document & upload the file to a Google Drive Public Folder where the file is suitable for downloading to computer hard drive/memory stick (& afterwards viewing, as well as printing, the latter often made simpler by dropping off the memory stick at a copy center for hi-res, double-side print & spiral bind)
● Articles overview/sampler: Come Von Braun "Non" Conquisto' Lo Spazio (EN)
● Collier's All-In-One: (Note: When downloading the file the system may display the message "There was a problem previewing [&/or virus scanning] this document [due to online file size limits for these services]", but still offers the download choice). "This Colliers Magazine 1952-54 Series "Man Will Conquer Space Soon" All-in-One File Document Is Available For Download From a Google Drive Public Share Folder As the Public Share File Named Colliers1952-54SeriesManWillConquerSpaceSoon.pdf, Via The Following Share URL" - NASA Ames-Google Planetary Ventures Space Exhibit: Colliers1952-54SeriesManWillConquerSpaceSoon.pdf
Disney
Tomorrow Land
● Website: Movie page
● DVD: Walt Disney Treasures - Tomorrow Land: Disney in Space and Beyond
● YouTube: Playlist
●● Episodes:
●●● "Man In Space" "Man And The Moon" "Mars And Beyond"
●●● "Eyes In Outer Space" "Our Friend The Atom" "EPCOT"
Space Race: "a BBC [4-episode] docudrama series...chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the moon. It focuses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams" - Wiki
● NetFlix
● YouTube (Episode 1-4): Playlist
Source: Nasa
NASA Human Settlement of Mars Mission & Architecture Design documents: 2 master plan documents layout NASA's specific engineering spec for executing the Human Settlement of Mars. "NASA Mars Design Reference Mission ("DRM") refer to...NASA conceptual design studies of the missions to send humans to Mars. The related...Design Reference Architecture (DRA), refers to the entire sequences of missions and supporting infrastructure" - Wiki. Both documents have undergone several revisions/addendums & are available online as PDFs.
● Human Mission to Mars Overview/History: Wiki
● Original NASA Plan (for sample graphics see pdf pgs 26-7, 153, 161, 163-4, 166-8, 170, 177, 191-2):
"Human Exploration of Mars: The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team
● NASA Mars Design Reference Mission (Wiki): Overview 3.0 Graphic
● NASA Mars Design Reference Architecture (NASA): 5.0 Addendum
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