Dennis Tito To Announce Private Human Mars Mission

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21. yeap...

The idea of prepositioning supplies was the crux of the argument of whether it was possible or not.

The "cutting edge" part of landing something the size of Curiosity was not just that it was big but that it was also a lot more delicate than landing bulk supplies, which we could've probably managed since the 60's.

You don't need robots the scale or complexity of a Curiosity to set up shelters but if lets say the correct tools were sent, Curiosity could be retasked to do an awful lot more than it's present mission specs and it's already there...lol

You wouldn't be using "rockets" in the classical sense to carry humans to Mars anyway, you'd be using solar sails and/or electric propulsion...neither of which are "cutting edge"

And if as I suggested above they use inflatable construction techniques as is planned for expanding the ISS construction could begin around 2014.