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How to Put a Human on Mars

How would a first human mission to Mars actually work were we to try to send a crew there using existing technologies? A team of scientists from Imperial College London takes on the challenge of designing the crafts which would be needed to get them down on the Red Planet and safely back to Earth.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 5 Jan 201421:30GMT

Broadcasts

  • Sat 27 Jul 201309:30GMT
  • Sat 27 Jul 201321:30GMT
  • Sun 28 Jul 201302:30GMT
  • Sun 28 Jul 201315:30GMT
  • Sat 4 Jan 201402:30GMT
  • Sat 4 Jan 201408:30GMT
  • Sun 5 Jan 201403:30GMT
  • Sun 5 Jan 201414:30GMT
  • Sun 5 Jan 201421:30GMT

70,000,000-mile trip

70,000,000-mile trip

How you could get to Mars and back in one piece