Dennis Tito To Announce Private Human Mars Mission

[longship]

20. Good. Good!!

I try to keep up but it's difficult. Thanks.

But the Saturn V is not going to work. It's freaking 1960's technology! We have better now, even if it doesn't yet have the lift for interplanetary human occupied space craft. Plus, you can't just throw together a Saturn V, even if you have a forty year old example, or a dozen (which they don't).

The damned thing is not like the little rockets one launched as a teenager. You don't take a forty year old rocket and a forty year old design and just declare, "It worked for the moon 40 years ago. Let's fuckin' go to Mars!"

In my youth, the Everly Brothers had a song that expresses my sentiments about a Mars mission by 2018.."

I'd love it if it happened. But if so, we've got some work to do! There's nothing I would like better.

Except for maybe a permanent human-occupied outpost at a Moon-Earth Lagrange point which would give us a highway to the entire solar system. But I would settle for Mars, in spite the fact that my idea may be easier and, in the long term, more productive.

As always,
Love these discussions!
Thanks!