Re: An opportunity for VMS



AEF wrote:

I think trying put humans on Mars now is like trying to go to the Moon
in the 1920's. We just don't have the technology yet (well, I have to

I think we need Project Orion :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29

admit I haven't read up on this topic, but I think at the very least it
would be very difficult and certainly very, very expensive! Look at how
the space program has gone so far: 3 lives lost going to the Moon
(Apollo 1). 3 more lives very nearly lost on the same mission (Apollo
13). Fourteen lost on the Shuttle to date! I believe the Russians lost
at least one cosmonaut, but they didn't go to the moon or build a
shuttle.

JMHO

AEF



David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University


PS.

There is an interesting radio adaptation of Stephen Baxter's Voyage on BBC
radio 7 this week at 6.30pm and 12.30 which is an alternative history of
NASA and space travel assuming that a new goal of sending a man to Mars had
followed the moon landings.





Anyway, Bill's point was that if space travel were privatized, we might
be on Mars already. That's what I responded to when I said "Give me a
break!". You somehow changed that to my saying that we shouldn't go to
Mars. Well, we should, but not prematurely.


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