Mars, no really; again

[HopAlongBunny]

It ain't gonna happen tomorrow.
The day after looks pretty dubious as well.
Brief sketch: establishment of a "spaceport" orbiting the moon; a space station orbiting Mars.
Little things like a reusable lander at the Mars station would need to be developed as well.
As usual, the big hurdle is getting everything out of Earth gravity

Its big, its ambitious; just what Lockheed Martin likes I would think.
Upside, most seems to be stuff we have done, or already have a good idea how to do
The talk of 1000 day missions, likely makes a small pool of candidates even smaller:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...umans-to-mars/

[Seamus Fermanagh]

1k days given current propulsion is not unreasonable. Can easily spend 200 on each leg of the trip in 'spam in a can' mode. Plus, the return leg is governed as much by orbital positioning as well as anything else. Leaving 200 days earlier than planned doesn't help much if the trip is 170 days longer because of the departure date chosen.

[Pannonian]

1k days given current propulsion is not unreasonable. Can easily spend 200 on each leg of the trip in 'spam in a can' mode. Plus, the return leg is governed as much by orbital positioning as well as anything else. Leaving 200 days earlier than planned doesn't help much if the trip is 170 days longer because of the departure date chosen.

The 1k days will zoom by if we provide them with internet.

[Beskar]

The 1k days will zoom by if we provide them with internet.

If they are less selective on who can apply, there would not be a candidate shortage too. But yes, give them a boat load of games, movies, nations favourite.. and it would be a NEET paradise.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The 1k days will zoom by if we provide them with internet.

I cannot imagine the ping scores for that distance

[Beskar]

I cannot imagine the ping scores for that distance

Has to be better than my current... I used to think my internet was bad, and that was over 10 times faster than now. Used to pay for 200Mb and used to get (if lucky) 56Mb. Now I pay for 20Mb and receive like 3.2Mb.

[Pannonian]

Has to be better than my current... I used to think my internet was bad, and that was over 10 times faster than now. Used to pay for 200Mb and used to get (if lucky) 56Mb. Now I pay for 20Mb and receive like 3.2Mb.

I remember the days of dial up. Heck, my computing lessons used to talk about bawd rates.