Could Orion take astronauts to Mars? Technically, yes. But they'll be dead in 20 days when life support runs out. Which is non-optimal.
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Point of the book is that we have to rationally match risk/cost to reward, not deliberately slam folks into Mars.
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@SafeNotAnOption @RocketAcademy Pair Orion with a @BigelowSpace module and do an Inspiration Mars flight, which you liked, I believe.
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@kchangnyt Why waste all that money, when you could do it with a Dragon?@RocketAcademy@BigelowSpace -
@SafeNotAnOption@RocketAcademy@BigelowSpace That's different from saying#Orion to Mars is "guaranteed dead." - 23 more replies
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@kchangnyt: Pair Orion with a@BigelowSpace module and do an Inspiration Mars flight” Neither Congress nor NASA are interested in that. -
@RocketAcademy@kchangnyt@BigelowSpace Well, NASA was all "Go Mars Yeah" today - the astros will have to live *somewhere* on the flight. - 2 more replies
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