I don't get the current space plans for reaching Mars. Does the Musk really plan on traveling to mars in a ship with a smaller interior than STS, with no gravity, and no radiation shielding, for 18 months there and back? NASA's design isn't really that much better. It's still sitting in an Apollo capsule for a year.
When I was a kid the plans were for big ships that had to be built in orbit, spun end over end all the way there at 1 Mars G, had a refuge inside where all the food and water was stored for when the Sun burped, and had a plasma drive that only took four months to get there. Even the cheap model was two shuttle sized modules that spun around each other at the ends of a long tether, one for the trip there and the other for the trip back.
Now we're going there in a capsule like it's 1959.
Jace Cook
? You go there and stay there, the ship flies back empty The fuck do you think you need gravity for
Ayden Foster
>21st century race for space Spoiler alert: Space X won.
Brayden Kelly
instead of shitposting, why not think of a solution that doesn't involve sitting around with thumbs in our asses I can think of one, but a dim fucker like you probably cannot
Charles Thompson
>cryo methane has the best balance of specific thrust and energy density lol nope
Robert Green
Musk does not plan to use a capsule to go to Mars. Dragon capsule is for near Earth space only. Mars plan is to use ITS:
