Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrinis an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars. He and his colleague at Martin Marietta, David Baker, were the driving force behind Mars Direct, a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. A modified version of the plan...
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They have an inferior lunar mission mode per sebut if they make the heavy-lift vehicle, they make everything we need them to make. That's the most important thing the lunar program can give the Mars program.
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The thing that makes this a winner is 1) there is a negligible cost difference to making flex fuel vehicle, 2) such cars can use existing gasoline.
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What they're really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later,