
Planetary Radio at the Humans to Mars Summit
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
00:00
The 20 33 Opportunity to Do an Orbital Mission
The 20 33 opportunity in order to get back to the earth, you know, in 570 days you do a venus fly by gravity assist. So if we did this mission, it would be the first crew to go to mars and venus. Quite a historical first. I'm really excited about developing these nuclear propulsion systems. But as we saw, i the national academy's report on that,. You know, i is probably not going to be ready for humans to use for a while. And one of the things we noted in the panel is that i think it's absolutely essential to have nuclear surface power for the moon and also for mars.
Transcript
Play full episode