A GREAT SOURCE OF IDEAS - TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND - LRK -
Romance to Reality - Moon and Mars Mission Plans | David S. F. Portree | Faculty | Mars Institute - To further the scientific study, exploration, and public understanding of Mars: "Romance to Reality: moon & Mars mission plans
It is part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.
- Ray Bradbury
Romance to Reality contains more than 350 detailed annotations (that is, summaries and descriptions) of classic, seminal, and illustrative moon and Mars exploration and settlement studies dating from 1950 to present. These are arranged in 15 sections by subject. I continually add to this site because I want to
teach about the challenges and opportunities of exploring and settling the moon and Mars
make widely available the legacy of ideas engineers and scientists have developed for exploring and settling the moon and Mars
provide an exciting glimpse of possible futures by looking into the past
help in a small way to build a future including human activities on the moon and Mars
My criteria for selecting documents to annotate are admittedly fluid. I give emphasis to studies which emerged as important to later planning, but also include those that help to illustrate the wide range of moon and Mars options. Romance to Reality is meant to be a primer for building the future, not merely a catalog of unrealized dreams. - David S. F. Portree"
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