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First Crewed Mars Mission 2033 | Boeing NASA Heavy Lift Space Launch System SLS - Mars Flyby Mission

In This Boeing designed mission, planned for 2033, A Crewed Mars Flyby Mission is flown as the first crewed mission To Mars. The Mars Transfer Vehicle (MTV) (Long Duration Habitat and Propulsion Modules) Fly on a 500-day Free Return Trajectory. The Free Return, which occurs about once every 15 years, has a significant safety and operation advantage in that no propulsive maneuver is required at Mars. This greatly simplifies the mission and reduces the number of required Heavy Lift Launchers. The Boeing / NASA Space Launch System (SLS) can do this mission in three launches. The Orion space capsule is used to get the crew to the MTV, and is carried with the MTV to Mars. For the Mars mission, the Orion uses an uprated (slightly thicker) heat shield; it will bring the crew back to Earth via aero-deceleration in the atmosphere and then parachutes to a splashdown in the ocean. During the journey the crew lives out of the Habitat, with the Orion serving as a backup living space and control center. Propulsion modules will provide a Trans-Mars Injection (TMI) burn departing Earth, and a Deep Space Burn (DSB) maneuver along the way. All of these physically large and massive elements are launched to a High Earth, Aggregation Orbit (In This Case Earth Moon L2). There they are docked together. The MTV will pass by Mars at an astonishing low altitude of 250-km. The vehicle does not stop, but will swing-by Mars taking advantage of a gravity turn that will put the vehicle on its Earth Return trajectory that will intercept Earth. This crewed Mars flyby mission would be a good "first crewed" Mars mission as it would validate all the Earth-Mars propulsion systems, maneuvers, and operations before any later, follow-on, more complex and costly Mars surface missions in the late 2030s. These later surface missions would require a large 43-metric ton (mt) Mars lander, a large 17-meter diameter Aerobrake and a large and heavy long duration surface habit (to be landed via a separate large cargo lander). My eliminating the landers, the surface habitat, the Aero-shell and the propulsion required for a stopover and departure burns at Mars, this mission can much less complex, safer and done with fewer Launch vehicles. The SLS's (Block 2 / EUS) incredible capability to inject very heavy payloads to the EML2 staging node (44-mt) enables this mission. Without the SLS it is extremely unlikely that this mission could be flown safely and reliably. The SLS's huge 8.4-meter diameter fairing allow these large habitats and propulsion modules to be launched as "single-piece" elements, further simplifying the mission. The new SLS, which flew a perfectly flawless test mission in 2022 is in production and ready to enable this and the subsequent follow-on Mars crewed surface missions that would follow in the late 2030's. The SLS is NASA's newest and most reliable super heavy lift rocket and has the throw-mass and fairing size to accomplish the most demanding space exploration missions. The SLS also will enable many other deep space missions that would not be feasible without it. All material is provided by Boeing and has been shown at AIAA, IEEE, JANNAF and IAC conferences, working groups, and mission evaluation panels. Animations: Bob Sauls - XP4D Corp Mission / vehicle design and concept development: Benjamin Donahue, Matthew Duggan - Boeing Trajectory design and optimization: Jerry Horsewood - Space Flight Solutions, Inc Special thanks to the rest of the Boeing Exploration Launch Systems team Publication: 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) IAC-22,B3,8,x70674 Paris, 18-22 September 2022 Mars 2033 Human Flyby Mission: B. Donahue, M. Duggan, Boeing Exploration Launch Systems