To: KevinDavis
Read The Case for Mars by Dr. Robert Zubrin. Although criticized as an optimist by many, he has had a large impact at NASA and the development of the current Mars Design Reference Mission (DRM III). In the Case for Mars he outlines a way to have Mars-normal gravity ~1/3g in a spacecraft by a simple rotating tether. It is not complicated engineering nor mission critical if the tether fails.
8 posted on
01/15/2007 7:55:04 PM PST by
AntiKev
("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
To: AntiKev; All
I have read his book many times and he is right...
9 posted on
01/15/2007 7:56:52 PM PST by
KevinDavis
(Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
To: AntiKev
Read The Case for Mars by Dr. Robert Zubrin. Although criticized as an optimist by many, he has had a large impact at NASA and the development of the current Mars Design Reference Mission (DRM III). In the Case for Mars he outlines a way to have Mars-normal gravity ~1/3g in a spacecraft by a simple rotating tether. It is not complicated engineering nor mission critical if the tether fails. Yup. Artificial gravity solves the bone loss problem. Makes flight dynamics a bit more tricky, but the problems are not insurmountable.
14 posted on
01/15/2007 9:21:13 PM PST by
filbert
(More filbert at http://www.medary.com)
Spinning to produce artificial gravity during a mission to and from Mars is at least as old as the writings on the subject by Werner von Braun.
18 posted on
01/16/2007 7:40:51 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
("In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they're not." -- John Rummel)
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