Pathways to Mars: An overview of flight profiles and staging options for Mars missions

Science and Technology Series

Volumn 86, Issue , 1996, Pages 99-125

  Niehoff, John C ^a   Hoffman, Stephen J ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 4243162222     PISSN: 02784017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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