Mission to Mars CEA
References
Constraint Considerations
“What will it take to live on Mars?” Understanding Martian resources and environmental constraints. https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/imagine/leaders/project_resources/mars_info.html
NASA: Human exploration of Mars and Design Architecture 5.0 The strategy and implementation concepts that are described in this report should not be viewed as constituting a formal plan for the human exploration of Mars. Instead, this report provides a vision of a potential approach for human Mars exploration that is based on best estimates of what we know. https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/373665main_NASA-SP-2009-566.pdf
Ten reasons NOT to live on Mars – Great place to explore Mars is a fascinating planet, the most like Earth of all the planets in the solar system, and may help us to understand much about the origins of life on Earth. Undoubtedly, it's a wonderful place to explore, especially with augmented reality vision. But though it was quite Earth-like in its first few hundred million years, it is not at all Earth like now. http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor/blog/ten_reasons_not_to_live_on_mars_great_place_to_explore-118531
Mars – Sim. A Mars Simulation Project. The Mars Simulation Project (mars-sim) is an open source Java project aiming at building computer models that characterize important aspects of establishing human settlements on Mars. http://mars-sim.sourceforge.net/
NASA: Orion Spacecraft. For the first time in a generation, NASA is building a new human spacecraft that will usher in a new era of space exploration. A series of increasingly challenging missions awaits, and this new spacecraft will take us farther than we’ve gone before, including Mars. https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/index.html
Design Considerations
Welcome to Mars. Here’s where you will be staying In a fun competition to design a 3-D-printed Martian habitat, three designs are finalists. http://www.popsci.com/article/science/welcome-mars-heres-where-youll-be-staying
Pringles Image. Image of Pringle chips efficiently stacked. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Pringles_chips.JPG/220px-Pringles_chips.JPG
Sphere Packing In geometry, a sphere packing is an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space. The spheres considered are usually all of identical size, and the space is usually three-dimensional Euclidean space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_packing
Corrugated Box Design Corrugated box design is the process of matching design factors for corrugated fiberboard boxes with the functional physical, processing and end-use requirements. Packaging engineers work to meet the performance requirements of a box while controlling total costs throughout the system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_box_design