Von Braun proposed Mars Spacecraft for the 1980's

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While this thread here deals with the nuclear shuttle technology http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6177.0/all.html I thought of using this thread for the proposed Mars missions themselves for the early 1980's

 

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Images of MEM (Mars excursion module) and 1969 mission concepts

 

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Boeing variation on nuclear shuttle and 2 cut-away diagrams

 

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From http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/spacecraft/nerva/nerva.html

 

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In LEGO

The Space Review: Flights to Mars, real and LEGO

I think that lander was kept as part of the Mars One crew manual:

Amazon.com

I’d like a ring on it:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576524002406?dgcid=rss_sd_all

Shielding

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524002212

Other art

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/496592296384183073/

View: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/496592296384183073/


I think Rick Sternbach was working on a full size manned Mars lander mock up.