2020 — An Artificial Gravity Concept for the Mars Transit Vehicle

September 4, 2020

Authors: David Smitherman, Paola Gonzalez, and Mandy Kriger, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

Introduction: This presentation was given to the AIAA ASCEND 2020 conference as a summary of work completed with student interns in 2019 and 2020. The work describes an artificial gravity vehicle designed for Mars transit missions that can be built with current technology using space station assembly techniques.

Also available online at:

NASA Technical Report Server: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20205007247

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/MASCEND20