Details on NASA's Latest Mars Plan Next Week
NASA to Brief NRC on Its New Mars Plan Next Week, SpacePolicyOnline
“Orlando Figueroa will brief the National Research Council’s Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) next week on the results of his Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) effort. Figueroa is scheduled to brief the committee on Tuesday at 10:15 am PT (1:15 pm ET) at the NRC’s Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. The NRC plans to webcast the meeting.”
Nice Image.Don’t see many oblique views.The atmosphere,the mountains raising up.I will watch this to see if they take my advice to cut costs by building there on launcher and spacecraft.A year to get to Mars,have to stay 2 years and 1 year back.According to everything you see on TV or read right?Wrong.That is 1 mission.I came across another Mars mission that NASA has.One year out,stay 1 Month,1 year back.This sounds more logical.For the first mission 1 month would be enough to get a lot done.Anything left could be used on the next mission.It should take a lot less supplies and cost a lot less.The Mars launch window is long,so I can see this.It would take a little longer for the trips.I have said that landing by rockets alone can’t be done since they may run out of fuel like Apollo 11.True,but they had the ascent module to abort,if needed.Mars craft should be built the same way.
I finally found a Lunar Orbiter report on the radiation around the Moon.The Astronauts had enough protection for the ejection events they measured.For some earlier really strong events,there would have been too much radiation.This can be compared to the RAD on MSL.Also micro-meteoroids are half as much around the Moon as around Earth.
Folks:
Notice how many comments there are in this thread compared to the one with a two second hop by SpaceX’s Grasshopper? There’s a lesson to be learned here.
tinker
The notice above is just that a notice. There is no grand statement or conclusion to be made and certainly no lesson to be learned. I imagine there will be plenty of discussion when the updated Mars plan is released.
As for the “Grasshopper” thread, you’ll note that 23 of the current 40 comments are from 3 people. Certainly the number of comments doesn’t necessarily say anything about the value of an article.
But Grasshopper has not as many comments as “NASA Ready To Announce Deep Space Human Mission”
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