Some cool new technology would have had to be built like a nuclear powered rocket to give the astronauts extra umph to leave this planet and head to Mars.
Check out that drawing of a space shuttle in the image above. It looks like it's based on the LS-200 shuttle by Lockheed way back in the day. Notice the fuel tanks are in a V configuration around the cockpit. Doesn't look too safe, does it?
If you grew up in the late 70's early 80's (like me) you probably watched Buck Rogers in the 25th Centry. Remember the intro? Supposedly in 1987 NASA's Ranger 3 starship would be knocked off course into the freezing cold of space sending Captain Rogers on a trajectory that would return him to earth frozen 500 years in the future.
Well Ranger 3 was based on the current space shuttle orbiter. Check out how the models were built here. There's no way anything could support astronauts going into deep space, but hey people are talking about sending the space shuttles to Mars.
I guess anything is possible.
2 comments:
I can't tell if you are dissing Buck or not. Watch yourself, mister. Don't mess with the Buck.
No way I'd never put down Capt. Rogers. I just like to analyze the "predictions" scifi (or not) can lay out there about the short-term future.
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