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Tag: manned Mars expedition
255-GRC-1962-C-62091
Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1962-C-62095
Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1962-C-62090
Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1962-C-62092
Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1962-C-62093
Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1962-C-62088
Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1962-C-62089
Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
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Image credit: NASA Glenn
Image source: National Archives
Early Program Development
This artist’s concept from 1962 show a three hundred-sixty ton spaceship, powered by a forty-megawatt nuclear-electric power plant, transporting a three-man crew to Mars. As envisioned by Marshall Space Flight Center engineers, a five-ship convoy would make the round trip journey in about five hundred days.
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