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Milling some ideas around in my head, I'd like to get some feedback on a few of them.
What would you all think about the possibilty/plausiability of a unmanned Mars mission, funded, directed and controled from the private sector, namely the Mars Society?
Conditions for this hypothetical are:
-A Private entity is willing to launch a payload of a specific mass into a TMI orbit
-Sufficent funding can be obtained for the testing, procurement and manufacture of the unmanned mission
-Support using NASA's DSN to facilitate mission communication
What are some ideas for missions? I have included some ideas of my own, geared mainly toward the near-future Mars-Direct style missions.
-Small Scale In-Situ Propellant lander with or without sample return
-Multiple Aerial Balloon Recon Packages
-Orbiting TDDRS's
"Where passion leads or prudence points the way".
-Robert Lowth
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I think the fuel generation experiment would be a good idea. Since the Mars Society seems more concerned about the actual colonization of Mars rather than pure science, such a mission could help advance its goals at least a little. I think building a deep drilling machine to look for liquid, subsurface water would also be interesting. Maybe have a lab on the drilling machine that would examine any samples of water for life.
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