Tag: Mars Excursion Module

Manned Mars Mission

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Mars Colony of The Future

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Image credit: Rockwell International
Image source: Mike Acs

Mars Spacecraft Approaching Surface

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Image credit: Rockwell International
Image source: Mike Acs

Module Configuration

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Image credit: NASA Lewis
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Mars Returner

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Image credit: Convair
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Surface Operations

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Deimos Storyboard

Mission to Mars (Project Deimos)

  1. Hydrogen tanks jettison as ROMBUS spaceship accelerates from Earth-orbit;
  2. Two hydrogen tanks jettison after retro-thrust into Mars orbit. Mars Landing Module separates from ROMBUS parent above the cratered deserts;
  3. After soft-landing, astronauts begin exploration setting out research equipment and taking meteorological soundings;
  4. Ascent stage of Mars Landing Module returns astronauts to ROMBUS parent in Martian orbit for return to Earth.

Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969

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Don Charles

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