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Launch Manifest For NASA's "Road To Mars" Takes Shape But Questions Remain
MarkWhittington writes: NASASpaceFlight.com reported that NASA's so-called "Road to Mars" is starting to take shape. The deep space program that would conclude with human astronauts departing for the Red Planet in 2039 would require just over 40 launches of the heavy-lift Space Launch System, including an uncrewed flight in 2018 and one flight a year to cis-lunar space starting in 2021 lasting until 2027. A flight in 2028 would launch something called the Pathfinder Entry Descent Landing Craft to Mars as a precursor for a human landing. Then the Mars program begins in earnest with a mission to Phobos in 2033 and missions to the Martian surface in 2039 and 2043.
one flight a year to cis-lunar space
No flights to trans-lunar space?
SOMEONE ALERT TUMBLR!
Not really, Obama just issued an executive order for it. Congress isn't onboard yet.
No no no, you uninformed ninny!
As Fox news will tell you solar radiation is actually a lie spread by the UN as part of their plans for world government.
Its unclear to anyone, including the UN, exactly what one has to do with the other, but its in the plan, so....