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  1. Nuclear Electric Propulsion for Planetary Defense

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  2. Power Beaming From Lunar Orbit for Small Science Landers

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  3. A Conceptual Architecture for Venus Surface Sample Return

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  4. Interactive Mars: A Direct-Experience Mission

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  5. Transformational Propulsion for Fast In-Space Transits

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  6. MIP: the First ISRU Flight Experiment

    Article • November 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  7. Settling Venus: A City in the Clouds?

    Article • November 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  8. Titan Turtle: NIAC Phase II Design for a Submersible Vehicle for Titan Exploration

    Article • November 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  9. Laser Power Beaming for Lunar Polar Exploration

    Article • August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  10. Power Generation from Interplanetary and Interstellar Plasma and Magnetic Fields

    Article • August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Matt Wentzel-Long, Geoffrey Landis

  11. Design Study of a Rocket-powered Hopper Mission to Triton

    Article • September 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  12. Small Wind-powered Missions to the Surface of Venus

    Article • September 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  13. Mission to the Gravitational Focus of the Sun: A Critical Analysis

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  14. Analysis of a Radioisotope Thermal Rocket Engine

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Jonathan P Machado-Rodriguez, Geoffrey Landis

  15. Design Study of a Mars Ascent Vehicle for Sample Return Using In-Situ Generated Propellant

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  16. Solar vs. Fission Surface Power for Mars

    Article • September 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  17. Triton Hopper: Exploring Neptune’s Captured Kuiper Belt Object

    Article • September 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  18. Non-Cooled Power System for Venus Lander

    Article • July 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  19. A Cubesat Asteroid Mission: Propulsion Trade-offs

    Article • July 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  20. In-Situ Resource Utilization for Space Exploration: Resource Processing, Mission-Enabling Technologies, and Lessons for Sustainability on Earth and Beyond

    Article • July 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Geoffrey Landis

  21. Fermi's Paradox and the End of the Universe

    Article • Communications of the ACM, October 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Geoffrey Landis