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Ice Ocean on Mars: What's Next?
Fox News ^
| May 30, 2002
| Rand Simberg
Posted on 05/30/2002 10:59:33 AM PDT by NonZeroSum
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Bob J
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To: Brett66
You don't need Saturn Vs to get to Mars. Small space transports, operating often (for e.g., tourism) can deliver everything that a Mars mission needs, and at affordable costs.
To: NonZeroSum
Leveraging off of a space tourism transport infrastructure would be a great way to do it, but I suspect NASA has no such plans. If the president were to announce a goal of reaching Mars within a decade, I think NASA would do the old Apollo routine. If they were really innovative, they would build reusable VASIMR rockets for routine,fast transport to Mars. I don't think I'm ready to credit NASA for innovative thinking like that though. They'll choose whatever method congress or the president tells them and it will be a fiscal disaster.
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05/30/2002 7:17:06 PM PDT
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Brett66
To: Brett66
We could title it "Boondoggle-the next degeneration" :)
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05/30/2002 7:19:48 PM PDT
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Brett66
To: Brett66
If we can get a space tourism industry going, they'll have little choice.
To: NonZeroSum
Yes and I believe that's the only way we will be going to Mars, if we have a healthy space industry then going to Mars will be a natural extension of our capabilities. If NASA tries to rush there, it will be a horribly expensive failure. Even Zubrin's "Mars Direct" scheme could easily turn into a + 200 billion boondoggle. I just hope some of the infrastructure leveraging ideas like yours are given a fair hearing. If NASA is given such a mandate, they have a tremendous opportunity or they could set back the development of space industry 30 years (again).
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05/30/2002 7:34:58 PM PDT
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Brett66
To: Brett66
I think that was the point of the Fox News piece.
To: NonZeroSum
Ice Ocean on Mars: What's Next?
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