Manned Flight to Mars, Card No 50 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)

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The Race Into Space (Brooke Bond, 1971)

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Card No. 50: The Manned Flight to Mars

1980s

America's plan for a manned expedition to Mars involves two nuclear-powered spaceships, each carrying six astronauts, launched (according to one plan), on November 12, 1981.

Reaching Mars on August 9, 1982, each vehicle would orbit the planet for 80 days while unmanned probes, followed by three men from each ship, would descend to carry out scientific research and collect samples.

During the return to Earth (landing on August 14, 1983) the expedition would fly past Venus to observe the planet and use its gravity to reduce speed.


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