Re: The Mars Landing Approach: Getting Large Payloads to the Surface of the Red Planet

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:48:33 GMT, jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(John Savard) wrote:

Basically, I'm just proposing a "brute-force" solution to show that it's
*possible* to land an astronaut safely. Not being an engineer, I'm
hesitant to go into more elegant solutions, which may or may not be
workable.

I don't think there's any question that it's possible to land an
astronaut safely. Certainly, there was nothing in the article to suggest
this is seen as anything other than a difficult engineering problem.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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