Re: Space exploration for the rest of us

James Nicoll wrote:

If we bring that down to 5 years, and we leave 2 years
of data gathering at Titan, we need for N people:


Why bring them back?

Yes. I missed that possibility.

After 1 to 1.5 years in space, humans start decaying quickly.
Their bones become brittle, space radiation destroys surely their
brain and other organs, so it is well taken point.

After arriving to Jupiter they would be already all dead, so we
do not need supplies for the trip to Saturn/Titan and back.

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