# title
A Global Access Transportation System for a Mars Exploration Architecture

# abstract
2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. A Mars mission architecture design challenge was developed by Dr. George James (NASA JSC) and Professor Gregory Chamitoff (instructor for the course) for a Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering senior capstone design course.The challenge involved developing an architecture that met the following requirements: initiate long-term population growth and expansion, create a transportation system capable of global exploration, establish in-situ resource utilization systems, habitat and research facilities, and global tele-robotics. This paper will focus on the crew transportation aspect within the Martian system, and the underlying challenges, namely designing a safe, reliable, and reusable vehicle capable of transporting the crew to and from orbit, and to distant geographic locations. Ultimately, a design consisting of two separate crew transportation vehicles was chosen to address these challenges and achieve long term growth, global exploration, and scientific advancement on the surface of Mars.

# publicationOutlet
2018 AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition

# nameOfConference
2018 AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition

# publisher.label
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

# authorList[]
Hunt, T., Johns, M. N., Call, D. L., Mullen, D., James, G. H., & Chamitoff, G. E.