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 .p015 . Kam: "Imagine we have weekly trips to Mars"
  . '''No, I __can't__ imagine.''' The [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period#Synodic_period | synodic period ]] between Earth-Mars conjunctions is around 780 days, more than 110 weeks. I '''can''' imagine weekly (perhaps daily) launches to an Earth-orbiting "Mars training academy", where potential Mars travelers spend months training in 0.38 gee centrifugal gravity. The top performing graduates are selected for the far more expensive trip to Mars (also in a 0.38 gee centrifugal gravity [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler | Aldrin Cycler ]] spacecraft), up to 110 weeks later.
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  . I used [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clarke_(physicist) | John Clarke's ]] sputter magnetron deposition system to make [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_effect | Josephson junctions ]]
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 .p022 . [[ https://english.cas.cn/Special_Reports/rd/2012/202210/t20221017_321620.shtml | China Aerospace CAS ]] Moon map by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'e_1 | Chang'e 1 ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'e_2 | Chang'e 2 ]]
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 .p023 . "LaGrande Points" (sic)
 .p023 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Lehao | Long Lehao ]] chief designer of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_3A | Long March 3A ]]
  . 2600 kg to GTO, 1600 kg to Heliocentric HCO, 27 launches 1994-2018
 .p025 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell_Telescope | East Asian Observatory ]] 1987-2015 UK Canada Netherlands funding, 2015-present PRC Japan Korea Taiwan funding
 .p026 . 2013 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3 | Chang'e 3 lander ]]
 .p026 . and 5cm [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3#Lunar-based_ultraviolet_telescope_(LUT) | Ultraviolet Telescope ]] 245-340 nm
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Open Space

David Ariosto . 2026 . BeavLib 338.4791 ARI . 372p w/ Notes and Index

  • p011 Ch01 Launch Day

  • p011 . Dr. Kam Ghaffarian . Steve Altemus . Intuitive Machines

  • p011 . Odysseus lunar lander "Odie"

  • p015 . Kam: "Imagine we have weekly trips to Mars"

    • No, I can't imagine. The synodic period between Earth-Mars conjunctions is around 780 days, more than 110 weeks. I can imagine weekly (perhaps daily) launches to an Earth-orbiting "Mars training academy", where potential Mars travelers spend months training in 0.38 gee centrifugal gravity. The top performing graduates are selected for the far more expensive trip to Mars (also in a 0.38 gee centrifugal gravity Aldrin Cycler spacecraft), up to 110 weeks later.

    • Hundreds of different skills will be required on Mars; some skills can be learned quickly, other skills may require 100 or more weeks to train. Early washouts from the 100 week training courses may still do well on a shorter training course for a simpler skill.

  • p017 Ch02 Building Landers

  • p22 Ch03 The View from China

  • p028 Ch04 Problem in Houston

  • p033 Ch05 A New Silk Road

  • p035 .

  • p037 .

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  • p038 .

  • p039 .

  • p040 .

  • p042 Ch06 The Path to Interplanetary Space

  • p043 .

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  • p045 .

  • p047 Ch07 Artemis

  • p048 .

  • p050 .

  • p052 Ch08 Selling the Moon

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  • p055 .

  • p057 Ch09 Echos of China's Rise

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  • p067 Ch10 First Taikonaut

  • p069 .

  • p074 Ch11 Science in the Haunted 1950s

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  • p082 Ch12 The Pentagon's New Ride

  • p086 Ch13 Moon Rush

  • p092 Ch14 Red Star and Clover

  • p096 Ch15 Peregrine

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  • p099 Ch16 Final Descent - Columbia

  • p102 .

  • p107 Ch17 Moon Mountain

  • p110 Ch18 The Making of China's Commercial Rockets

  • p114 Ch19 Imagining Tomorrow

  • p122 Ch20 The Night Before Blastoff

  • p124 .

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  • p129 Ch21 Launch from the East

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  • p134 Ch22 Countdown

  • p137 .

  • p139 Ch23 Lunar Payload

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  • p141 .

  • p142 .

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  • p143 .

  • p143 .

  • p144 .

  • p145 Ch24 Huntsville

  • p145 .

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  • p149 .

  • p151 Ch25 En Route to the Moon

  • p152 .

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  • p153 .

  • p156 Ch26 Lunar Descent

  • p164 Ch27 The SpaceX Effect

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  • p172 Ch28 The Art of War

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  • p179 Ch29 Turning Point

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  • p182 Ch30 Starfish Prime

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  • p185 Ch31 Space Junk

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  • p197 Ch32 Italian Entrepreneurs in the Red Desert

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  • p202 Ch33 Governing Mars

  • p204 .

  • p208 Ch34 Where is Everybody?

  • p213 Ch35 The Search

  • p217 Ch36 Defending Earth

  • p221 Ch37 Impact

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  • p223 .

  • p224 .

  • p229 Ch38 Alpha Centauri Awaits

  • p236 Ch39 Interstellar Voyagers

  • p240 Ch40 Party in the Valley

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  • p249 Ch41 Nuclear Rockets

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  • p255 Ch42 Harnessing the Power of the Sun

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  • p262 Ch43 Ask a Fish About Water -- A Visit to CERN

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  • p266 Ch44 The Antimatter Factory

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  • p271 Ch45 Warp Drives

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  • p277 Ch46 Casimir

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  • p287 Ch47 Adaptation

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  • p290 Epilogue

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