Twenty Years From Now On Mars

spacedaily.com ^ | 07/14/05

[KevinDavis]

Since Wernher von Braun first sketched out his Marsprojekt in 1946, a succession of designs and mission profiles were seriously studied in the United States and the Soviet Union.

By the late 1960's Von Braun had come to favour nuclear thermal rocket powered expeditions, while Korolev's design bureau decided that nuclear electric propulsion was the way to go.

All such work stopped in both countries in the 1970's, after the cancellation of the Apollo program in the United States and the N1 booster in the Soviet Union.

[KevinDavis]