saskboy's Journal: Murphy's Law on Mars: How to Manage it?

A NASA report lays out the risks of exploring Mars and considers how to mitigate them. "According to Murphy's Law, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and presumably this applies on Mars as well as Earth. So if things go wrong on Mars, are we ready for them? What do we need to know about Mars before we send people there? That question is what NASA's Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG for short) addressed in its report [PDF] dated June 2, 2005." Topping the list are dust, dust storms, water and biohazards like alien infections.
  http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/reports/mhp_ssg_(06-02-05).pdf