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Red Christmas: Billionaire eyes private Mars mission in 2017
"Billionaire Dennis Tito has revealed his scheme for dispatching
two astronauts to the red planet as early as December 2017, saying that 'rare alignments' of planets should be exploited as the context of the project. '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, according to a report released on Wednesday." See: http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Red..._2017_999.html Is it worth it to send astronauts all the way to Mars & back without landing? |
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Red Christmas: Billionaire eyes private Mars mission in 2017
Is it worth it to send astronauts all the way to Mars & back without landing? no its a very risky stunt. between radiation, eye damage, mechanical breakdown and all the rest hurrying is just a way to make waste. unless the crew can land on mars, which it cant... |
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Red Christmas: Billionaire eyes private Mars mission in 2017
so what is the round trip time normally?
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Red Christmas: Billionaire eyes private Mars mission in 2017
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, bob haller wrote to All: bh so what is the round trip time normally? define "normally"... while doing that, remember that both bodies are orbiting the sun at different speeds and either may be in front of or behind the other at some point in time... [ quote=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_mission_to_Mars ] Launch windows As with other interplanetary travel, the energy needed to transfer between planetary orbits hits a low point at intervals fixed by the synodic period. For Earth / Mars trips, this is every 26 Earth months (2 years and 2 months). So missions are typically Several types of mission plans have been proposed, such as the opposition class and conjunction class,[19] or the Crocco flyby. However, typical Mars mission plans have round-trip flight times of 400 to 450 days. A fast Mars mission of 245 days round trip [/quote] if, however, you are speaking of radio communications, then things change a lot )\/(ark -- | Remove .my.foot for email | via Waldo's Place USA Fidonet-Internet Gateway Site | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. |
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Red Christmas: Billionaire eyes private Mars mission in 2017
In writes:
See: http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Red..._2017_999.html Is it worth it to send astronauts all the way to Mars & back without landing? Not really, but it's all right, since they're not going anyway. (I suppose you could pitch it as an endurance mission with a couple days of interesting alternate scenery, but, again, it won't launch.) -- http://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/ Joseph Nebus Latest: Emile Lemoine http://wp.me/p1RYhY-vu --------------------------------------------------------+--------------------- |
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