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I've seen many ideas on getting people to the red Planet, there were ideas that were calling for bold and brave action like the Russian Yuri and American Glenn's first trip into Space, a number of sites have called for an Apollo style mission, some plans on the web looked good, others called for Nuke-power, solar sails and ion-drive and some of it was more sci-fiction ish, a future dream with no real factual designs some of these mission ideas are more paper missions, nothing but an expensive power point slide show.
However I'm not asking a question about the rockets or transportation, I'm just really questioning who has the most fully functional base. There were ideas for a NASA DRM, Russian site on Mars, MarsDirect HAB module, ESA's Aurora and other ideas but who has a site that will really function with current technology. A colony that will be self-sufficient and some of the designs by people on the web looked more fancyfull, some them have looked kind of small cramming space explorers into Sardine can on a Red Planet journey.
Some info on the US mission to the Red Planet and NASA's Mars plans
http://spd.nasa.gov/]http://spd.nasa.gov/
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsyste … later.html
http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/news_stories/ne … cfm?ID=124
http://nasaexplores.msfc.nasa.gov/show_ … ...5161045
http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/general_i … ation.html
Russian ideas for the Red Planet, will Russia go to Mars ?
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-fut … e-05n.html
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/alm … mpart1.htm
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/ … _mars.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/03050515 … jrq85.html
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/tks.ht … ft/tks.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/marpos … arpost.htm
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-05r … d-05r.html
Private ideas, Zubrin's plan and other Mars designs
http://www.marssurterre.net/mars-societ … ubrin.html
http://www.marssociety.org.uk/EMC4-OU/G … ...n-1.htm
http://www.freecolorado.com/2004/01/zub … rin04.html
http://www.marssociety.nl/conv2002.php] … nv2002.php
http://www.scifidimensions.com/Jan04/ro … zubrin.htm
ESA's Aurora for European Mars base
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Aurora/ESA9 … 16D_3.html
http://www.esa.int/images/Marsbase_L.jp … base_L.jpg
http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESALDSF18ZC_fu … ure_0.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/images/aurora … -chart.jpg
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Aurora/ESAS … 08D_1.html
A Mars base with living quaters and experiments and astronaut exploeres would be great. Currently the Russians lack the cash for big Space planes, NASA have been grounded 2 and 1/2 years since the Shuttle fell apart as a fireball over Texas. The Private sector couldn't really handle it and ESA doesn't have knowledge of manned flight, today it seems nobody has the ability to go for Mars but who knows about the future. Which design for a well equipped and functional Martian base looks best, could be possible in the future and most real ?
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Mars missions - since Wernher von Braun's plans in 1946, some fo the lander and base designs looked good like the Combo Lander Mission and Marpost
http://astronautix.com/craftfam/martions.htm
Mars Society
http://astronautix.com/craft/marssion.htm
launch date July 1, 2011
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