"rk" wrote in message
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w9gb wrote:

.. and the odd thing was the MIT team actually had a Mars feasibility
study underway in the late 1950s.

This the one that you're thinking of? I haven't read it in a while but
recalled where it was on the www (good read in any case):

-- rk

"Design Principles for a General Control Computer"

Ramon L. Alonso and J. Hal Laning
Report R-276, April 1960
[snip]
http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/agc.htm


YES, in fact I was thinking of Eldon Hall's book which is a condensed
version of many of these discussions and papers, In the history before
Apollo (Hall's book) he goes into a bit more detail about the Mars
feasibility studies, especially guidance -- as being important in thinking
through the problem -- before having to actual build hardware to achieve it.

Thanks for the web links.

gb