You seem to know more about this than I do, but how practical and doable was it? Cause Mars is really really far away. Like I guess you could throw a lot of rocket fuel at the problem but at what point is the time spent travelling just cruel to the astronauts?
I mean, yeah, that's sort of been the issue for much of that time, that the amount of science they could do on a short jaunt of a few days or weeks doesn't justify the many months spent traveling there, though there is science that can be done in transit (though it's largely the same things that can be done in orbit around earth, anyways)
There are a number of different proposed methods of doing it, on different time scales, but I really dig the ideas proposed in Mars Direct , which could have even feasibly launched in the 2000s.
You seem to know more about this than I do, but how practical and doable was it? Cause Mars is really really far away. Like I guess you could throw a lot of rocket fuel at the problem but at what point is the time spent travelling just cruel to the astronauts?
I mean, yeah, that's sort of been the issue for much of that time, that the amount of science they could do on a short jaunt of a few days or weeks doesn't justify the many months spent traveling there, though there is science that can be done in transit (though it's largely the same things that can be done in orbit around earth, anyways)
There are a number of different proposed methods of doing it, on different time scales, but I really dig the ideas proposed in Mars Direct , which could have even feasibly launched in the 2000s.