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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA Ep. 135: Going Nuts
Are we really ready?
Hosted by Steve Nerlich.
From Dec 1, 2025.
Cheap Astronomy tries to stay sane on a trip to Mars?
Dear Cheap Astronomy – Will we just go nuts on a two-year mission to Mars
Well, we might if the space radiation doesn't kill us first. As we may have noted in previous episodes, current timelines for when we'll land on Mars seem to take little account of the fact that there are many mission components we don't even have conceptual solutions for let alone anything flight-tested or even prototyped. So current aspirations of having footprints on Mars in the 2030s are just…
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