Why NASA's Road To Mars Plan Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First

Posted by timothy on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:20PM from the one-giant-step-at-a-time dept.

MarkWhittington writes: NASASpaceFlight.com published the results of current NASA thinking concerning what needs to be launched and when to support a crewed mission to Phobos and two crewed missions to the Martian surface between 2033 and 2043. The result is a mind-numbingly complex operation involving dozens of launches to cis-lunar space and Mars using the heavy lift Space Launch System. The architecture includes a collection of habitation modules, Mars landers, propulsion units (both chemical rockets and solar electric propulsion) and other parts of a Mars ship.

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Re:Hmm by aevan · 2015-09-25 18:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Check your privilege terranlord. Your humansplaining is hurtful to those that identify as other-celestial or planet-fluid.

More seriously, thank for the info. Was curious about the term, but not enough to rtfa - everyone knows a Mun base isn't helpful. Now Minmus...