Re: "Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very soon"

On 9/9/2024 5:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/9/2024 3:24 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:

On 9/9/2024 4:09 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very soon"
    https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-land-on- mars-19752466.php
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“The SpaceX CEO said the rocket will land on Mars in two years.”
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“There's only a certain window every two years when Earth and Mars are lined up and a journey to the Red Planet is efficient, and Elon Musk is trying to send Starship out when that happens in 2026.”
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Bold.  Unmanned of course.
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Tickets will be going on sale fairly soon for the second trip.  I suspect that it will be one way.

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I suppose it's also possible to miss Mars by an inch, fly around it and return to Earth. It worked when flying to the Moon (at least for the Baltimore Gun Club), so surely it will work with Mars...

 Got food for the return trip and a place to put human waste ?  Oxygen and a way to get rid of the excess CO2 ?

I am sure Baltimore Gun Club members will be happy to offer suggestions. (Hopefully they won't make the same kind of math mistake that they made in the third volume of the series.)