* 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.

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.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars computer, and the company never quite recovered.

A modified proposal, " Mars for Less ", was developed by Grant Bonin, and has been adopted as the design reference mission for a new umbrella group of advocates, the MarsDrive consortium.

A modified proposal, called " Mars to Stay ", involves not returning the first immigrant / explorers immediately, or ever.

He was the driving force behind Mars Direct — a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission.

However, a cursory glance at the Proto-Celtic lexicon reveals that * belatu-is reconstructible for Proto-Celtic with the meaning ‘ death ’ and that * kadro-is a reconstructible element meaning ‘ decorated .’ So the name Belatucadros may also be interpreted as a compound of two Gallic words descended from two Proto-Celtic elements * belatu-and * kadro-which together as a compound adjective would literally mean ‘ death-decorated .’ Indeed, this is hardly an original proposal for the meaning of the name of this god associated with Mars: MacCulloch as early as 1911 ( p135 ) glossed this god ’ s name as ‘ comely in slaughter ’.

Galileo also fails to discuss the possibility of non-circular orbits, although Kepler's proposal of an elliptical orbit for Mars had been published in 1609.

MRO was one of two missions being considered for the 2003 Mars launch window ; however, during the proposal process the orbiter lost against what became known as the Mars Exploration Rovers.

While the proposal for Phoenix was being written, the Mars Odyssey Orbiter used its gamma ray spectrometer and found the distinctive signature of hydrogen on some areas of the Martian surface, and the only plausible source of hydrogen on Mars would be water in the form of ice, frozen below the surface.

At the conference Obama and top officials as well as leaders in space discussed the future of U. S. efforts in human space flight and unveiled a plan for NASA that follows the Augustine Panel's " Flexible Path to Mars " option, modifying Obama's prior proposal in two important respects:

* Mars Direct, a proposal for a manned mission to Mars

On October 11, 2004, following a proposal by van Houten-Groeneveld in 2002 it was renamed in honour of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.

On October 11, 2004, following a proposal by van Houten-Groeneveld in 2002, it was named after the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

After the Beagle 3 project was rejected by ESA in 2004, Pillinger proposed to the American space agency ( NASA ) to include a scientific module originally meant for the Beagle 3 in the Mars Science Laboratory Mars lander, but the proposal was not accepted.

Roscosmos is also currently studying a proposal for a Mars surface sample return mission called Mars-Grunt.

A recent proposal put forward as alternative to the NASA Ares vehicles is the " Direct Shuttle Derivative " or DIRECT architecture ( unrelated to the " Mars Direct " plan described below ), made by a grassroots group of engineers and other spaceflight enthusiasts.

An early proposal to link the released land to other parts of Sydney involved a tramway to the Field of Mars.

Among the Laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission ( which includes the Curiosity rover ), the Cassini – Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ( GRAIL ) mission to the Moon, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ( NuSTAR ) X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The current board of directors of the Mars Society includes Robert Zubrin ( chairman ), James Heiser, and Declan O ' Donnell.

In addition to individual sleeping quarters which provide a degree of privacy for each of the crew and a place for personal effects, the Mars Habitat Unit includes a communal living area, a small galley, exercise area, and hygiene facilities with closed-circle water purification.

This mission consists of three spacecraft and includes a " Mars Ascent Vehicle " ( MAV ).

* S. M. Stirling's Lords of Creation series includes In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, in which Mars ( as well as Venus ) have been terraformed by unknown aliens over the course of hundreds of millions of years and seeded with all kinds of terrestrial life.

Strategic gameplay takes place on a 3-D rendered globe of Mars, which includes familiar landmarks such as Olympus Mons.

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

This contains articles corresponding to talks presented at the founding convention of the Mars Society in Boulder, Colorado in August 1998 ; it includes contributions from Zubrin, Buzz Aldrin, Martyn Fogg, and many others.

* Doctor Who includes a race native to the planet Mars known as the Ice Warriors, whose planet is dying out.

It also includes location footage with Bowie and Cyrinda Foxe ( a MainMan employee and a friend of David and Angie Bowie ) shot in San Francisco outside the famous Mars Hotel, with Fox posing provocatively in the street while Bowie lounges against the wall, smoking.

In 1994, the pop group Stereolab recorded a tribute to her, " International Colouring Contest ", on their album Mars Audiac Quintet ; the intro of the song includes a voice sample of Pamela herself (

The book, which includes a DVD of the original film, presents the story from the perspective of a now-adult Girmar, who has not only succeeded her father as ruler of Mars, but also narrates the tale in a ' valley girl '- esque type of language.

Since then, Bongos frontman Richard Barone has recorded several other Bolan compositions (" The Visit ," " Ballrooms of Mars "), worked with T. Rex producer Tony Visconti for his current solo album, Glow ( 2010, Bar / None Records ) that includes a remake of Bolan's " Girl " from Electric Warrior, and has himself produced tracks for Bolan's son Rolan.

His other voice work includes The Incredible Hulk, Biker Mice from Mars, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, and The Night of the Headless Horseman.

* Mars Triple Chocolate ( Australia ) A variant in which, despite the name, includes chocolate nougat and chocolate caramel.

The mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, which includes three previous successful landers: the two Viking program landers in 1976 and Mars Pathfinder probe in 1997.

The open source FreeBSD operating system includes an IPX / SPX stack, to support both a NetWare file system client, nwfs, as well as NetWare server using Mars NWE ( providing some functionality ).

Acquired programming on SVT2 includes Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, K Street, Parkinson, The Kumars at No. 42, The Wire, Nip / Tuck and Veronica Mars.

The Delta 7925 was chosen due to its successful launch history, which includes launches of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rovers in 2003 and Mars Pathfinder in 1996.