Posted on 11/24/2013 5:00:35 AM PST by lbryce
Billionaire Dennis Tito['s] 'Inspiration Mars' would be a 501-day US mission to the planet without landing on its surface and would take the opportunity of a rare alignment of Mars and earth so that the mission would require minimal rocket fuel... Tito proposed that the first launch would involve a NASA rocket delivering the vehicle into orbit that would actually go onto Mars, and the second would take the astronauts which would later be united with their spacecraft. "We propose to send a spacecraft bearing two astronauts, a man and woman, to the far side of Mars and return them to Earth, a voyage of 314 million miles in 501 days, in collaboration with NASA, in the name of America, and for the good of humanity,"stated the "Architecture Report Study" released by the Inspiration Mars team.Good plan, but even zero-grav sex must get a little old when there's nothing else to do for 500 days. Thanks lbryce. Extra to APoD.
Buzz Aldrin’s Mars Cycler:
http://buzzaldrin.com/space-vision/rocket_science/aldrin-mars-cycler/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVfUlFZQ4U
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
Yup, first men to the moon did not land either.
Let him. When it fails with the loss of all lives, maybe that will put the kibosh on OTHER such schemes which are no more viable than the video-game city of Rapture, before too many people with more money than brains get themselves and their support staffs and anyone with them killed.
“but even zero-grav sex must get a little old when there’s nothing else to do for 500 days.”
I’m game to try out your hypothesis.
Human gestation is 40 weeks. They might want to add another bedroom.
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