[FPSPACE] Learning from the Moon on the way to Mars

[Allen Thomson]

--- DSFPortree at aol.com wrote:

> Which reminds me, I bumbled across a Bellcomm document from 1966 that
> looked at what the Apollo Applications Program needed to do to
support
> piloted Mars (and Venus) missions in the 1975-80 timeframe. 1966 was 
> before AAP was shorn of its lunar missions and became strictly 
> Earth-orbital. Constellation is AAP reborn - sort of.

If you can find the document, I'd like to see it.

As for Constellation, yes, all of what we're doing now seems to be a
very sketchy Apollo 1.8 or so, with major bits of even the lunar part
hanging out in the "we'll get to that" territory.

Just doing a mildly credible PowerPoint presentation of what would be
needed to get to Mars and how current activities might contribute was a
step, however modest, in the right direction.