So it only takes 2 days to go to Mars now? It took the Apollo missions 3 days to go to the moon. SpaceX, with new improved rocketry, probably can go to another star system within a month or so....obvious sarcasm off. It is estimated to take 130 to 210 days for NASA to travel to Mars, yet Elon Musk passes Mars orbit in 48 hours. Something is wrong with this story.
So it only takes 2 days to go to Mars now? It took the Apollo missions 3 days to go to the moon. SpaceX, with new improved rocketry, probably can go to another star system within a month or so....obvious sarcasm off. It is estimated to take 130 to 210 days for NASA to travel to Mars, yet Elon Musk passes Mars orbit in 48 hours. Something is wrong with this story.
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Musk was making reference to the predicted orbit which kept enlarging as the second stage ran the propellant dry.
I confess, I’ve read the article twice and that’s what it sounds like. Truly confusing.
I was actually laughing at the clowns on TV this morning reporting this as if it were real. Some people just did not pay attention in school.
LOL!
Thanks for a good laugh!
I did not understand Musk’s tweet last night, as it takes 2 YEARS to get to Mars, and somehow his rocket is now between Mars and Jupiter.
The Apollo missions took three days because it was required for safety to be on a free-return trajectory. Too much velocity and it would just blow past the Moon. New Horizons, for example, took nine hours to cross the Moon’s orbit after it was launched. Needed that extra velocity to encounter Jupiter for a gravity assist and then on to Pluto.