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To: DoodleDawg

The Saturn V couldn’t take a person to Mars.


16 posted on 01/16/2014 6:17:59 AM PST by TomServo
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To: TomServo

So that’s why Capricorn One failed.....


18 posted on 01/16/2014 6:24:33 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: TomServo; DoodleDawg

Von Braun planned to assemble a Mars mission in orbit, using up to 12 Saturn V launches to do it (basically, the entire lunar landing program over again, but using a stage one booster that literally never had an engine failure).


43 posted on 01/19/2014 4:40:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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