Re: Joint Russian/Chinese manned flyby mission to Mars

On Oct 5, 11:21 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
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"Einar" <eina...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Oct 5, 3:45 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 29, 2:13 am, "Jim Relsh" <jrel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I keep wondering whether this is a possibillity in the not so distant
future
as the rewards for them would be great, whilst the cost and engineering
challenges are within their realm.

I can't imagine anyone wanting to do a manned flyby of Mars instead of
a manned landing.

John Savard

Lack of imagination then.

A spacecraft in orbit is naturally less than a light second away from
the surface, which will make A) teleoperation of surface based
equipment practical. B) make it much easier to give instructions to
robotic equipment on ground, erc.

A flyby != Orbit.

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Nasa did a fly around the Moon, if I remember correctly pryor to the
Moon landing mission.

There is an additional thing that a flyaround mission to Mars could
do. They could "TEST LAND" the planned Mars mission lander, remotelly
naturally. That would be necessary precurso to an actual landing.
Ellse the risk would be quite mad.

Someone said that the people might be stranded on Mars. A far more
likelly failure outcome is that they become a crater on Mars. The
landing is the critical point of the endevour, at least the first of
the critical points.

Einar

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