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I would enjoy seeing a book, heavily illustrated that detailed as many manned Mars mission plans and architectures over the years. Including early NASA plans and various Soviet and Russian concepts over the years.
I think such a book would be extremely interesting.
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I would enjoy seeing a book, heavily illustrated that detailed as many manned Mars mission plans and architectures over the years. Including early NASA plans and various Soviet and Russian concepts over the years.
I think such a book would be extremely interesting.
Starting doing some research, start writing, find a publisher. :-D
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David S.F. Portree has written such a book. I think the short title is "Humans to Mars" and it may still be available, for the cost of postage, from the government printing office.
Who needs Michael Griffin when you can have Peter Griffin? Catch "Family Guy" Sunday nights on FOX.
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David S.F. Portree has written such a book. I think the short title is "Humans to Mars" and it may still be available, for the cost of postage, from the government printing office.
I can't seem to find the book available anywhere.
Was it heavily illustrated?
I'm tempted to try to write a book myself. I have a list of some 18 different mission architectures that I've accumulated information on, including Mars Direct, Semi-Direct, Hybrid Direct, Nasa Reference Mission, Martin Marriettas Straight Arrow Approach, the "Split-Sprint" plan, Mars Visitor, and Mars 2000 and many many more.
But I"m not a writer. Beyond suggesting chapters and topics, I've never accomplished much beyond that.
And I"m certainly no engineer or scientist. Just a high school history teacher and unsuccessfull football coach.
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David Portree runs the "Romance to Reality" website at
http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/facult … rtree/rtr/
Contact him there about his book.
-- RobS
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A significant Mars plan was the Boeing-von Braun plan from 1968 and later adopted by NASA under the nickname "Mars One." The basic gist is that two separate, identical spacecraft, consiting of several nuclear-thermal rocket stages, would fly to Mars, stay for 30 days in their Apollo-like Mars Excursion Module, and return to earth via Venus flyby.
Who needs Michael Griffin when you can have Peter Griffin? Catch "Family Guy" Sunday nights on FOX.
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