mars

Quite amusing: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXD3b6OLtsg

The political and financial answers to this question were dealt with here . https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/space-1975-could-von-brauns-vision-have-worked.32299/page-2 What I really wanted to know and still do, was could it have been done technically? or was it just too complex? For...

http://www.aircraftdesign.com/mannedmarsplane.html An interesting design study, or perhaps the method a future Mars colony uses to convince Elon to regularly risk his life

New Scott Manley video. Computers Were So Slow Scientists 'Painted' The First Close Up Image Of Mars View: https://youtu.be/nSQlM6yGh7k

https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/11/10/1925239/nasa-launched-an-inflatable-flying-saucer-then-landed-it-in-the-ocean https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/10/world/polar-satellite-inflatable-heat-shield-launch-scn/index.html...

From a couple of days ago, via the Space Reddit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/25-years-of-continuous-robotic-mars-exploration-from-pathfinder-to-perseverance

https://www.nasa.gov/chapea https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-is-recruiting-for-yearlong-simulated-mars-mission

https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOlF9DXyJdw

We have discussed the pros and cons of Stephen Baxter's novel "Voyage" about a US crew landing on Mars in 1985. But could a mission like that have been done with the technology available to NASA?

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52713131

https://www.space.com/14526-dead-mars-spacecraft-photos-spirit-phoenix.html

Looks like something designed for an eighties sci-fi film as to what they’d imagine we’d be driving in the twenty twenties. That said modern motor vehicle design is very generic. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-cybertruck-price-features/

With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed...

Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...

Just been leafing through a copy of an old Brooke Bond card album about spaceflight which ends with various NASA projects planned before Nixon went for a leaner option I also have Stephen Baxter's novel VOYAGE about a US manned mission to Mars in the 80s. To get the Von Braun vision to work...

Came across a couple of documents that mentioned this abortive late 1980s/early 1990s plan for the future of the Soviet (civil) space program out to the year 2005. Included preparatory work & supporting projects, such as Mars '94 and a sample return mission in 1998, for the Mars Expedition...

https://wehackthemoon.com/tech/martian-probe-first-step-towards-moon-landing

Winner of NASA's latest 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge.

NASA spacecraft days away from risky landing (AP, via The Japan News) https://www.apnews.com/80b0bb92a4a147a0bb0b99626c96044d https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/overview/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/overview/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/about-the-lander/...