2014-10-29 18:34 GMT-03:00 Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com>: > I think that Nasa should resurrect the Constellation program. Nasa > received most of the tooling required to make the Ares rocket. They > even installed and tested the tooling fixtures. > > Having to pay Russia to launch our crap into low earth orbit is an > embarrassment. >
And imagine how far we would be now if they hadn't cancelled the Apollo program. I've been reading something about the VASIMR motors to reduce the travelling speed and they would be testing the first prototypes sometime near 2013/2014, but I don't know if that happened or not. Reading wikipedia it says that with this motors the duration of a possible trip to Mars would be of 39 days. Pretty impressive. Anyway, the Plasma motors only would be useful in space, we still need the rockets to escape from the earht's gravity, unless they come with a better system. -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
