page_title: Austere Human Missions to Mars
hierarchical_section_title: Austere Human Missions to Mars
caption_attribution_description: English: Mars-manned-mission vehicle (NASA Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0) feb 2009 Français&#160;: Véhicule pour une mission martienne amarinée (NASA Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0) fev 2009 Deutsch: Fahrzeug einer bemannten Marsmission (NASA Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0) Feb. 2009
context_page_description: Austere Human Missions to Mars is a concept for a human mission to Mars by the United States space agency, NASA. Released in 2009, it proposed a modified and even less costly version of Design Reference Architecture 5.0, itself a combination of nearly 20 years of Mars planning design work. The mission profile was for a conjunction class with a long surface stay, pre-deployed cargo, aerocapture and propulsive capture, and some in-situ resource production. As of 2015, the concept has not yet been adapted to the Space Launch System that replaced NASA's Constellation program in 2011.
context_section_description: Austere Human Missions to Mars is a concept for a human mission to Mars by the United States space agency, NASA. Released in 2009, it proposed a modified and even less costly version of Design Reference Architecture (DRA) 5.0, itself a combination of nearly 20 years of Mars planning design work. The mission profile was for a conjunction class with a long surface stay, pre-deployed cargo, aerocapture and propulsive capture, and some in-situ resource production. As of 2015, the concept has not yet been adapted to the Space Launch System that replaced NASA's Constellation program in 2011.
caption: Concept for NASA human Mars mission. On the far left an independent ascent stage, on the right a surface stay habitat and Manned/Pressurized Mars rover
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