"Fred J. McCall" wrote:

The sort of 'space stations' we're doing now don't do anything for a
Mars mission so far as I can tell.

Experience in long term operations, logistics, etc. (That's not to
say that the ISS is the ideal (by any measure of ideal) platform.)

D.
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Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL