{"id":3600,"date":"2013-07-24T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2013-07-24T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:25:14","slug":"bbc-program-about-a-uk-teams-design-for-a-human-mission-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"BBC program about a UK team&#8217;s design for a human mission to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group at Imperial College London have designed an architecture for a human mission to Mars. They use spin gravity during the trips to and from the Red Planet to prevent the health issues created by weightlessness. Plus take advantage of available materials, including food, water, waste and fuel, for radiation shielding. A system would be sent to the Mars surface ahead of<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crew would then return to Martian orbit in a pre-sent craft fuelled using ice from beneath the planet&#8217;s surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project is in conjunction with a BBC program that will be broadcast this weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-22952441\" target=\"_d\">UK team designs human mission to Mars &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-23349496\" target=\"_d\">How to put a human on Mars &#8211; BBC<\/a> &#8211; resources site<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-23425824\" target=\"_d\">Mars Mission: Martin Archer answers your questions &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group at Imperial College London have designed an architecture for a human mission to Mars. They use spin gravity during the trips to and from the Red Planet to prevent the health issues created by weightlessness. Plus take advantage of available materials, including food, water, waste and fuel, for radiation shielding. A system would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBC program about a UK team&#8217;s design for a human mission to Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,78,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-mars","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-W4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8887,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8887","url_meta":{"origin":3600,"position":0},"title":"India&#8217;s MOM spacecraft reaches Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"India\u2019s\u00a0Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)\u00a0probe successfully \u00a0entered\u00a0into orbit around the Red Planet\u00a0tonight. 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