Re: Joint Russian/Chinese manned flyby mission to Mars

"Einar" <einarbb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They might join orbit, instead of making it a flyby. But that is only
an alternative option.

So now we're back to a non-flyby mission. And most likely, if you're going
to do that, you'll go straight to the surface rather than into orbit. Going
orbit takes a lot more delta-V than simply landing.



And as for this being necessary, hardly. In fact you've replaced the
actual
scenario (landing a manned vehicle on Mars) with a made-up one (remote

You need to mind that to land on Mars is both at the same time, more
difficult than landing on Earth and than landing on the Moon.

Why?

A manned
landing has never been done on that solar system body, but plenty of
times on Earth and number of times on the Moon.

No, but a number of unmanned landings have occurred. And there's a lot of
reasons to think a manned landing would be safer and easier than an
unmanned.



It would be mad not to test the technologies necessary for a
successful landing on Mars, with some sort of a real test.

At this time, the task is though impossible, i.e to land humans on
Mars.

Just because you think it's impossible doesn't mean the folks who study this
for a living think it is.



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