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Buzz Aldrin's Roadmap to Mars

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the anything-to-get-me-outta-here dept.

FleaPlus writes "Former astronaut (and MIT astronautics grad) Buzz Aldrin has an article in last months Popular Mechanics in which he describes a plan for manned Mars missions. Aldrin's plan proposes using a Cycler spacecraft permanently orbiting between Earth and Mars. This would have a shielded habitat and rotation-induced gravity, and would take just 5 months to reach Mars. Smaller vehicles would take astronauts to and from the Cycler. Aldrin claims the plan is less costly and more sustainable than NASA's current plans."

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  1. Has the slashcode changed? by FalconZero · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I saw this as a thin bar at the top of the list. (Without the text - Just the link and the comment info in a grey curved box (lower style)).

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  2. Did anyone else think... by meringuoid · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ... that this was going to be a sequel to Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space?

    Damn was that game ever hard. The intelligence agencies were bloody useless, as well... I once played a two-player game against myself, running both sides with equal incompetence, and the KGB were assuring me that the Americans were about to orbit a minishuttle - I'd barely even got Gemini spaceworthy :)

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  3. Re:SO RETARDED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Digg has got them running scared, they're scrambling for ways to get more stories out.