Isn’t it time for rotating modules to create artificial gravity?
Isnt it time for rotating modules to create artificial gravity?
That’s what I was thinking. Minimum time out to Mars is 6 months. Likely a year on Mars to make the trip worthwhile and wait for favorable planetary alignment for the return trip to Earth. 6 months back. About 2 years time in total. You need artificial gravity for a trip of that duration.
Good question. That has always been a favorite of mine; nearly everything in space is rotating, but the boffins say it’s complicated. I really don’t understand how one of the most commonplace phenomena in the universe is so complicated that men can’t figure out how to do it.