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Dreams of the Moon

Posted by michael on from the green-cheese dept.

Iron Sun writes "The Mars Institute has an interesting overview of past studies into sending people to the Moon, ranging from pre-Apollo plans by Werner von Braun to NASA studies just a few years old. Timely, given the continuing speculation as to whether the US is going to go back."

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  1. Some of the early plans are a bit out there by Iron+Sun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My personal favourite is the One Way Manned Space Mission scheme from 1962 that would involve putting a man on the Moon and then launch supplies to him for the several years needed to develop a two-way retrieval system. All in the name of planting a flag first.

    So, hands up. Who would accept this mission if it was offered?

  2. How about a really old one by Brahmastra · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This isn't technically a plan, but pretty entertaining and fascinating considering when it was written