CSPAN2 A Life Reconsidered May 24, 2014
You could do the whole mission in it is three years if you land on the planet and you use the planetary a mechanics properly you could do it efficiently, explore the planet, you could be to people there this is a round trip mission. There is some interest in a mission to do the most you could put to instruments on demos but the problem with mars right now is once you lay and you have to take off again for you need the infrastructure on the planet. It has almost 40 percent of earths gravity. Have to have lifesupport established before you get there than infrastructure to get off the planet if y...