* further development of the Mars Direct mission plan to send humans to Mars

* gives talks and presentations on Mars Direct to schools, colleges, universities, professional bodies and the general public

Mars Direct is a proposal for a manned mission to Mars that is designed to be both cost-effective and possible with current technology.

Their goal to " use local resources, travel light, and live off the land " became the hallmark of Mars Direct.

The Mars Direct proposal includes a component for a Launch Vehicle " Ares ", an Earth Return Vehicle ( ERV ) and a Mars Habitat Unit ( MHU ).

Since it was first proposed as a part of Mars Direct, the Mars Habitat Unit has been adopted by NASA as a part of their Mars Design Reference Mission, which utilizes two Mars Habitat Units-one of which flies to Mars unmanned, providing a dedicated laboratory facility on Mars, together with the capacity to carry a larger rover vehicle.

Zubrin and Baker pitched Mars Direct at the Marshall Spaceflight Center, where reception was generally positive.

The NASA administration rejected Mars Direct.

Since Mars Direct was initially conceived, it has undergone regular review and development by Zubrin himself, the Mars Society, NASA, Stanford University and others.

Zubrin and Weaver developed a modified version of Mars Direct, called Mars Semi-Direct, in response to some specific criticisms.

The problems associated with long-term weightlessness would be addressed in the same manner as the baseline Mars Direct plan, a tether between the Dragon habitat and the TMI ( Trans-Mars Injection ) stage acting to allow rotation of the craft.

The Mars Society and Stanford studies retain the original 2-vehicle mission profile of Mars Direct, but increase the crew size to six.

This study uses horizontally landing, bent biconic shaped modules, and relies on solar power and chemical propulsion throughout, where Mars Direct and the DRMs used nuclear reactors for surface power and, in the case of the DRMs for propulsion as well.

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.

The Man from Mars had interrupted him with his work half finished -- and that stupid jackass Short was certain to louse it up.

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after.

This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction which most students make themselves, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander.

The event took place on the Champ de Mars, which was at the time far outside Paris.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

" It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes " flew off to Mars.

This mound on Mars ' north pole may be the result of an impact crater that was buried by sediment and subsequently re-exposed by erosion.

His interest in space, however, was his primary focus, especially after reading science fiction stories by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his imagination about life on other planets, such as Mars.

It was a joke call from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory concerning the preparation of the Mars Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ) for the oncoming Martian winter.

Although first introduced by Hebert Candies in 1955, Mars, Incorporated was the first to produce white chocolate within the United States.

Mars was the planet most often used in storylines in Cowboy Bebop.

Toba explained that it was not possible for the staff of Cowboy Bebop to have a dramatic rooftop scene occur on Venus, so " we ended up normally falling back to Mars ".

" The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 ), combining the hard rock elements of The Man Who Sold the World with the lighter experimental rock and pop of Hunky Dory, was released in June.

Footage from the final show was released in 1983 for the film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The Deep Space series was continued by the Deep Space 2 probes, which were launched in January 1999 on Mars Polar Lander and were intended to strike the surface of Mars.

EUROPA was used as a ground-based planner for the Mars Exploration Rovers.

EUROPA II was used to support the Phoenix Mars Lander and will support the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory.

Bob Dole and Kemp were featured on the cover of Time ( magazine ) | Time magazine, but were nearly displaced by a story about Mars ( inset on cover )

* The Twilight Zone featured several episodes that focused on Mars and / or Martians including Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up, People Are Alike All Over, and Mr. Dingle the Strong.

Some starships are assembled at Utopia Planitia region on Mars, particularly the Galaxy class starships featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Robert Zubrin was also recently featured in a CBC Television documentary special The Passionate Eye dubbed " The Mars Underground ".

In 2010 Robert Zubrin was featured in the Symphony of Science video " The Case for Mars " along with Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Penelope Boston.

The second half of the concert featured the three remaining Queen members-John Deacon ( on bass ), Brian May ( on guitar ) and Roger Taylor ( on drums )-along with guest singers and guitarists, including Elton John, Roger Daltrey ( of The Who ), Tony Iommi ( of Black Sabbath ), David Bowie, Mick Ronson ( of Spiders from Mars ), James Hetfield ( of Metallica ), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant ( of Led Zeppelin ), Joe Elliott and Phil Collen ( of Def Leppard ), Axl Rose and Slash ( of Guns N ' Roses ), Liza Minnelli, and others.

Early concepts for the Mars balloon featured a " dual balloon " system, with a sealed hydrogen or helium-filled balloon tethered to a solar Montgolfiere.

Over a two-week shooting schedule, Buchanan staged principal photography for Mars Needs Women in his hometown, Dallas, with the Southland Life Insurance Building visible as the Martians drive among the humans ; other prominent local landmarks including the Southern Methodist University were also featured.

Tim Schafer stated that Ben's last name is " Throttle " but it wasn't included in the game because of fears of a legal action by the producers of Biker Mice from Mars, which featured a character by the name of Throttle.

The band make use of vintage analog electronic instruments such as the Farfisa and Vox organs, and the Moog synthesizer, which was featured prominently on 1994's Mars Audiac Quintet.

He is an actor ( featured in various movies such as Requiem for a Dream, Lord of War, Fight Club, Mr. Nobody and American Psycho, among others ) and is also the frontman and rhythm guitarist of the popular hard rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.

In 2011, a representative from The Walt Disney Company invited students from Mars Elementary School to attend the Pittsburgh premiere of Mars Needs Moms, after reading a featured article on Mars, PA by msnbc. com.

In 2001 the railway was featured in the finale of ITV's comedy series The Grimleys, named The Grimley Curse, and then in 2007 on the finale of BBC One's award-winning drama series Life on Mars.

The show also featured the voices of René Auberjonois, Kenneth Mars, and Arte Johnson from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

* An episode of the BBC television programme Life on Mars featured the main characters infiltrating a swingers ' club.

In 1995, Ash left school and released their breakthrough singles " Kung Fu " ( featured over the end credits of Jackie Chan's North American breakthrough film, Rumble in the Bronx ), " Girl From Mars " and " Angel Interceptor ".

The 1989 debut album by hip-hop combo De La Soul featured an uncredited sample from the Turtles ( specifically, the intro to " You Showed Me "), in the song " Transmitting Live from Mars ".

Besides Aberhart, it featured actors portraying two characters of whom Aberhart had been making considerable use in presentations around the province: the Man from Mars, who expressed bewilderment that poverty could exist in the midst of plenty and that governments were doing nothing about it, and Kant B. Dunn, who brought up straw man arguments against social credit for Aberhart to dismantle.

In 2003, both Duck Dodgers and Marvin the Martian were featured on separate 1st Space Launch Squadron mission patches for that year's Mars Exploration Rover missions.

In an effort to simplify previous implementations of computers on spacecraft, Mars Climate Orbiter featured a single computer using an IBM RAD6000 processor capable of 5MHz, 10MHz and 20MHz operations.