Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by me_me_me on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:01PM (#40604609)

That is debatable at best, a crewed flight to mars is 8 months, crew of 3

You have roughly 40t at best for a craft that needs to land there.

quick google. astronauts need around 1.7kg of food per day, x3 crew, x(8x30) days is:

thats 1200 kg of food - one way - just to get there food.

And then you are doing to do what exactly?

> the rest of the plan revolved around using Apollo hardware, with some modification, for both transport and habitats(re-use of empty stages featured prominently).

This is basically handwaving problems away, massive problems.

The best I can agree is that a crewed fly-by could have been possible. But landing on mars would mean death sooner or later.

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by elsonrodriguez on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:33AM (#40605381)

The Mars Direct plan is featured heavily in the book "The Case For Mars".

It's over 400 pages and contains some of the details you seem to be curious about.

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