Graham2001
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While looking through a second hand shop I stumbled across the novel ''Welcome to Mars'' by James Blish. He completed it shortly after Mariner IV went past Mars which invalidated the cross between Antarctica/Himalaya version of Mars the author used (He acknowledged this in the afterword to the book.)
Having not read it since high-school I purchased it and started re-reading and thought it might make a fun add-on.
Plot-line.
Some time after 1978(!), a teen-age genius develops an Anti-gravity device and uses it to turn a packing crate into a spacecraft. His test flight to Mars results in him getting stranded there. His girlfriend uses his prototype anti-gravity device to turn another packing crate into a spacecraft and tries to rescue him, but crash lands on Mars as well.
As a consequence NASA ends up going to Mars before they get to the Moon!
Spacecraft
2x Flying Packing-crates.
3x Project Ares spacecraft (Any large ion propelled spacecraft NASA looked at in the 1960's)
At least one [ame=http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=467]Mars Glider[/ame]
Having not read it since high-school I purchased it and started re-reading and thought it might make a fun add-on.
Plot-line.
Some time after 1978(!), a teen-age genius develops an Anti-gravity device and uses it to turn a packing crate into a spacecraft. His test flight to Mars results in him getting stranded there. His girlfriend uses his prototype anti-gravity device to turn another packing crate into a spacecraft and tries to rescue him, but crash lands on Mars as well.
As a consequence NASA ends up going to Mars before they get to the Moon!
Spacecraft
2x Flying Packing-crates.
3x Project Ares spacecraft (Any large ion propelled spacecraft NASA looked at in the 1960's)
At least one [ame=http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=467]Mars Glider[/ame]
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