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Old April 13th 09, 03:34 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Space Policy: Why Mars should be our top priority.

David Spain wrote:

:Pat Flannery writes:
:
: jacob navia wrote:
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: (5) The landing technology for a heave vessel in Mars is not there
:
: "Heave Vessel?"
: Sounds like space sickness to me. :-D
:
: Pat
:
:Well, I'd suggest a landing technology similar to that used for
:the Mars Exploration Rovers would work well....
:

You might want to take a look at the density of the packaging and then
figure out how big a manned mission vehicle would have to be.

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