A poster summarizing all the major Mars mission architectures proposed would be sweet.Anyone know of something like that.NASA DRM 1-5, Project Troy, Mars Direct 1-3, various SEI options on astronautix, etc.Plus the Apollo era stuff, Soviet/Russian and Chinese mission concepts, maybe any of the hard scifi approaches might be interesting.Plus various iterations of the SpaceX approach.
Quote from: Robotbeat on 05/09/2022 04:08 pmA poster summarizing all the major Mars mission architectures proposed would be sweet.Anyone know of something like that.NASA DRM 1-5, Project Troy, Mars Direct 1-3, various SEI options on astronautix, etc.Plus the Apollo era stuff, Soviet/Russian and Chinese mission concepts, maybe any of the hard scifi approaches might be interesting.Plus various iterations of the SpaceX approach.And the von Braun / Collier, too.
Quote from: libra on 05/09/2022 04:16 pmQuote from: Robotbeat on 05/09/2022 04:08 pmA poster summarizing all the major Mars mission architectures proposed would be sweet.Anyone know of something like that.NASA DRM 1-5, Project Troy, Mars Direct 1-3, various SEI options on astronautix, etc.Plus the Apollo era stuff, Soviet/Russian and Chinese mission concepts, maybe any of the hard scifi approaches might be interesting.Plus various iterations of the SpaceX approach.And the von Braun / Collier, too.Probably too high level but these lists are useful as a start?http://astronautix.com/a/americanmarsexpeditions.htmlhttp://astronautix.com/r/russianmarsexpeditions.htmlhttp://astronautix.com/e/europeanmarsmission.html
Fun exercise. So I understand: what is an 'Earth side launch cost'? Is no $ value attached to the 'work that Mars performs'?