>but I bet landing humans on Mars would be an even >bigger boost
Acctually this space station, and/or future space stations is a very important step towards putting men on Mars. It is far more efficent to launch the expedition to Mars from a space platform than from Cape Kennedy. Escaping the atmosphere costs alot of energy.
Except that in space you cannot just travel in a straight line. The Sun and other large bodies will pull you into an orbit. So the distance to travel is much longer than the actual distance betwene the two planets
You may have taken this into account in your calc, but you dont mention it. Your answer seems very wrong though 50000kmh isnt all that much apollo did 29000 or something like that. And that was only from earth to moon. Id expect a month of acceleration getting you up to a bit more speed than this. Fighter planes does 0-1000 in seconds in AIR
In addtion, you just cannot go ahead and fire up your spaceship any day of the week. You have to wait for a "window". This has got something to do with Gravity too. For conventinal "space ships" this window is about every 6 months or so
Dont know about plasma crafts -- damn, it seemed so easy in star wars
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>but I bet landing humans on Mars would be an even
>bigger boost
Acctually this space station, and/or future space stations is a very important step towards putting men on Mars. It is far more efficent to launch the expedition to Mars from a space platform than from Cape Kennedy. Escaping the atmosphere costs alot of energy.
Except that in space you cannot just travel in a straight line. The Sun and other large bodies will pull you into an orbit. So the distance to travel is much longer than the actual distance betwene the two planets
You may have taken this into account in your calc, but you dont mention it. Your answer seems very wrong though 50000kmh isnt all that much apollo did 29000 or something like that. And that was only from earth to moon. Id expect a month of acceleration getting you up to a bit more speed than this. Fighter planes does 0-1000 in seconds in AIR
In addtion, you just cannot go ahead and fire up your spaceship any day of the week. You have to wait for a "window". This has got something to do with Gravity too. For conventinal "space ships" this window is about every 6 months or so
Dont know about plasma crafts
-- damn, it seemed so easy in star wars