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#1 Re: Human missions » What Kind of Manned  Program Should We Push For? - A Time to choose » 2004-12-08 18:22:50

Stop thinking return missions. Is it true that we have heavy lift rockets that could lob supplies to the surface. When enough supplies arrive to make a survival village send humans by the same means. Go there to stay. Send older people that
plan on dying on mars. Never come back. We could wait forever here for technology to catch up. Send new villagers each month. Send new supplies constantly. Build a city. Settle the new world like north america was settled.

When the technology catches up the tourists and military can come and do their five year rotations.

If mars settlers wanted to travel they could go outward into space instead of wasting resources coming back where they had been. We could establish orbital labs around other planets and moons while the cautious wait for the technology to send someone to mars and return them safely.

Use expendable rockets and people. I will go. Just keep sending new people to replace the old ones there dying on
mars. Think about it.

ohnny

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