oceanbluesky

Do you like NASA Watch, even if they are borderline crankish and pathologically short fused?

you're being a good sport about all this : )

(hope you get a laugh about being able to downvote provocative questions ; ) I am burning so much karma asking them it's ridiculous! : )

Please restore his comments. Worse than misinformed personal insults - which are common to this topic in the space-advocacy community, they need to be aired - is censorship by moderators, who may not appreciate the very real impact such mistaken views have on national space policy. Censorship makes the situation worse.

Hi Peter, thank you for this AMA, wondering if you have more to add about Mars to Stay mission architectures...this has been one of my favorite quotes of yours:

“I think privately funded missions are the only way to go to Mars with humans because I think the best way to go is on “one-way” colonization flights and no government will likely sanction such a risk. The timing for this could well be within the next 20 years. It will fall within the hands of a small group of tech billionaires who view such missions as the way to leave their mark on humanity.”

Thank you

What modifications would an Orion need to land from low Mars orbit and then take off again for rendezvous with an Earth-Mars cycler in LMO as presumably will be accomplished by future versions of Red Dragons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dragon_(spacecraft) ?

For example, could a Red Orion use methane produced on-site to launch from the surface of Mars? Can the Orion be equipped with retrograde propulsive landing like SpaceX's Grasshopper? Are there plans to develop a Red Orion with such Mars-relevant technologies? Thanks.

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