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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
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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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