HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT // MISSION GUIDE v2

9 DESTINATIONS · 6 CROSS-CUTTING SYSTEMS · 5 INTERACTIVE TOOLS · 50+ DID-YOU-KNOW FACTS
DESTINATIONS SYSTEMS TOOLS COMPARE
◉ INTERACTIVE GUIDE · v2.0 · EXPANDED

Sending Humans to Nine Very Different Frontiers

Each destination forces a different engineering conversation. LEO is a rescue ride away; a Lagrange point is a week from help; Mars is a 900-day commitment; Jupiter is a 5-year gamble with existential radiation. This guide walks through what changes — physiologically, operationally, on the reliability sheet, in the radiation dose, in the comms delay, in the rationing mass — as humans push further from Earth. Tap any destination to explore, or use the interactive tools at the bottom.

9
Destinations
70+
Considerations
50+
Did-You-Know
5
Interactive Tools
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SUBORBITAL
100 km
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LEO
160–2000 km
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HEO/GEO
35,786 km
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LUNAR
384,400 km
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LAGRANGE
to 1.5M km
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NEO
0.1–0.3 AU
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VENUS
0.27 AU
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MARS
0.5–2.7 AU
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JOVIAN
5+ AU
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INTERACTIVE TOOLS
Play with the numbers that define each mission class. Radiation dose scales linearly with environment and time; Δv forces mass via the rocket equation; comms delay reshapes the flight control paradigm; rationing mass determines whether a mission even closes.
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Radiation Dose Calculator
based on Curiosity RAD, ISS, and published GCR models
90.0 mSv
cumulative effective dose
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Δv Budget & Mass Ratio
Tsiolkovsky rocket equation · m_wet / m_dry = e^(Δv/v_e)
25,000 m/s
required Δv
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Wet mass
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Propellant mass
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Mass ratio
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Payload fraction
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Comms Delay Visualizer
one-way and round-trip light time
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one-way delay
— round-trip
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Rationing & Consumables
NASA BVAD per-crew-member-day budgets
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total net consumables mass
ItemRateRawRecycledNet
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Loss-of-Crew Risk Comparator
human-rating targets and historical actuals

SIDE-BY-SIDE // MISSION PARAMETERS

How the nine destinations stack up across the variables that drive design decisions.
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DID YOU KNOW