I’m sure you’ll ignore this, but: For a transit time of 3-4 months, that’s a solved problem. The Russians had a >400 day mission and the dude who did it walked after landing on Earth. That’s 3 times the gravity of Mars and 4 times the duration of Mars transit on Starship.
Yeah, but this is NASA we're talking about—we're going to do it by having a long and cautious series of what are basically deep-space ISS missions.
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unless NASA becomes a governing body of space exploration for the USA (besides FAA?) SpaceX will go without them when they have the capability (saying that, NASA and the US government will 100% force spacex to have nasa astronauts if that happens to save face)
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I believe SpaceX will promise Mars is four years away for the remainder of our natural lives.
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Or, we could figure out how to minimize the transit time to mitigate those effects.
I guess we could just use a much bigger rocket that we would otherwise need?
Nah... that's stupid. We should just boost the ISS to the Van Allan belt and see what happens.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That is 1 way to do it but it exposes astronauts to the worst risks. Mars’ surface is much safer than Mars orbit or deep space. You should consider the NASA studies that considered Mars Direct or similar. They’re more similar to SpaceX’s architecture. Try http://ntrs.NASA.gov
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