Word: marsprojekt
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Mars & Back. Von Braun's Marsprojekt would be a very considerable effort. Forty-six three-stage rocket ships, weighing 6,400 tons each* at takeoff, would have to make 950 trips above the earth's atmosphere, carrying cargo (39.4 tons of pay load per trip) and fuel to build and stock the satellite filling station. On this base, ten orbit-to-orbit spaceships would be assembled. Taking off for Mars, they would establish a second filling station in an orbit around that planet. Enough fuel and supplies would remain to set 50 men down on Mars in three...
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