MARS MANNED FLYING VEHICLES

[Space Baron]

With all the ideas of flying astronauts on the Moon, one or two manned propulsive flying vehicles seemed to be overlooked for Mars.
.38 Gravity is still a great environment to hop around with propulsive rockets for solo or pairs.
Here is an old proposal for a 0ne-man lunar flying vehicle by North American Rockwell Space. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19690028820/downloads/19690028820.pdf
Here is another versions from the good ole days of innovation.

Seems that better tech and Insitu for fuel would be highly conductive for the Martian surface.
Time for new hybrid vehicles to get around Mars.
thoughts?

 

[TomcatViP]

@Space Baron : Thank you very much. What an amazing company was North American!
What about something similar, but with cold thrusters for safety purposes? Something like that should work better its way in modern NASA.

 

[Archibald]

Zubrin's NIMF ?

 

[Space Baron]

That’s one! It’s a bit overkill… here is another one Insitu rocket propulsion.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20130013554/downloads/20130013554.pdf

just surprised there has not been a great renaissance of new ideas on this for getting around Mars…

anyone know any others?

 

[TomcatViP]

@Space Baron : I think we could rename this thread Mars flying Vehicles from Men (you'd never know).

Here is the Martian Unmanned glider pre-concept recently unveiled by the university of Az:

Mars sailplane prototype soars during early-stage tethered flight test in Arizona

Researchers want to know more about the Red Planet's enigmatic geology and thin atmosphere.

www.space.com