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How to Go to Mars [Preview]

Staff writers George Musser and Mark Alpert make sense of the myriad ideas for a human mission

By George Musser and Mark Alpert















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  1. 1. Koltrast 02:45 PM 3/23/09

    If artificial gravity is a must in order to travel to Mars (so that the crew doesn't grow too weak), why do we not see any such spacecraft design accompanying all these articles about reaching Mars? A spacecraft such as illustrated in 2001? And why the heck doesn't the ISS rotate? How difficult can THAT be? Just wondering......

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