Our effort must be oriented to get artificial gravity. The following presentation is a new approach to get 1 G gravity.
Are there any papers out there on the proposal yet?
Quote from: Dalhousie on 04/30/2017 11:47 pmAre there any papers out there on the proposal yet?Here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/spidersuit-mars-astronauts-lockheed-nasa-2017-5Astronauts may wear eight-legged 'spider' spacesuits to crawl on the moons of Mars
Also, the MMU was sadly short-lived. After Challenger, like so much of the STS' programs, it was deemed risky as opposed to just using the robotic arm or tethered spacewalkers.
I think Phobos and Deimos exploration is an excellent idea - getting people out to Martian orbit to explore the Moon and open the road to Mars is definitely a good thing...
...However, this seems to be just more grandiose, romantic Powerpoints that will end up not happening. Again.
I think that to make GPS satellites network just for the landing side it means probably eight satellites will be enough to help ITs to land. iI think they'll deployed thisnetwork in the first try to make it mars
Lockheed Martin's Mars Base Camp plan: base in orbit, with landers flying short (~10 days) sorties to various locations on surface #IAC2017