Wednesday 24 March 2021

We've been landing on Mars for a long time.

 The Mars Perseverance rover...







is as far from Viking...










As Viking is from the 1931 Schneider Trophy seaplane:




5 comments:

  1. Makes you wonder what humanity could have achieved by now with some real resource thrown into exploration!

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    1. If you read Steve Baxter's Voyage, it'll show we could have been on Mars by the mid-80s using tweaked Apollo era hardware.

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    2. Thanks, I've always meant to read some Baxter but didn't know where to start. Now I do! :)

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  2. I think we should take more good care of our home.Exploration is a built in prerogative to our species but if we won't take care of it we won't be able to have a base from which we can send our species in space.Terraforming is still in the future, as many other things.

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  3. Looking forward to the first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter next week....

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