Crewed mars mission: Concept development and experimentation

This paper presents the concept development and experimentation of human spaceflight missions to Mars. Utilizing Acolytion's Progspexion, analysis of alternatives is performed inclusive of 18 prominent mission concepts with a vast experimentally designed tradespace exploration of crewed Mars mission architecture constituents. Results indicate that, as of date, no proposed mission concept is capable of achieving acceptable mission utility to risk ratios; however, the research produces 18 statistically guided developments to the concept of crewed Mars missions. © 2018 British Interplanetary Society. All rights reserved.