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Oldfart1939

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Interview with Robert Zubrin

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6L-dP8 … WL&index=2

This was an online interview conducted by Ellie, on her YouTube channel, Ellie in Space. Many interesting call in questions and discussed the new Mars Research Institute initiated by Robert. It's a lengthy interview of an hour. I watched it in it's entirety. Lots of questions about SpaceX and Elon Musk--all answered in the classic Zubrin manner.

Last edited by Oldfart1939 (2023-12-19 14:29:14)

tahanson43206

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Re: Interview with Robert Zubrin

For Oldfart1939...

This new topic has a title that invites contributions ...

Dr. Zubrin has given many interviews and presentations over the years.

Each of them might be eligible for a post, if the contributor would like to take the time to find a link, and provide a bit of text explaining why a reader might want to invest the time it will take to all up the link.

Please go back to post #1 and provide a bit of context.

If you are in the mood, please consider adding a few highlights, so that someone pressed for time might be inspired to click the link.

There is a lot going on these days!

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Interview with Robert Zubrin

A practical approach to the Mars Sample Return mission

Robert Zubrin

https://spacenews.com/practical-approac … n-mission/

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission has run aground, wrecked by a $10 billion price estimate, a 16 year timeline and excessive mission and programmatic risk. If the mission is to proceed, a much simpler and cheaper approach must be found.

Fortunately, such an approach is available. The current MSR mission plan is so costly, complex, and risky because it has not been approached as a mission to be accomplished as swiftly and cheaply as possible, but as an activity to be used to unify the international space exploration community by giving as many players as possible something to do. Thus the current script for MSR provides starring roles for, among others, the Perseverance mission team, the JPL Mars helicopter development team, the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) development team, the many nations of the European Space Agency, the advanced propulsion community, autonomous rendezvous and dock technology developers, precision landing technologists, Mars lander developers, Mars orbiter developers, the Planetary Protection bureaucracy and perhaps even the Artemis program Deep Space Gateway program.

The way to cheapen, quicken and de-risk the mission is to cut most of this mob out of the action.

There are two ways this can be done...

I believe the same article was posted at the fornt page of the Mars society website 20 hours ago ·

he finishes the article with criticism of NASA

'NASA needs to decide whether it wants to have an effective Mars exploration program or a happily empowered planetary protection bureaucracy. It can’t have both.'

another side to this is international politics

the Chinese have public stated they plan on going to Mars with a MSR and will be getting samples back before the NASA / JPL missiom there are conflicting media reports on the China mission but it seems it could have a proposed 2030 Mission called 'Tianwen-3' after a Mars mission Tianmen-1 already at Mars, an Asteroid mission Tianwen-2 (yet to launch) and Lunar missions the Moon sample-returns Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 recently launched.

some other videos

2022 - Why Getting Rocks Back From Mars Is A Massive Challenge 'Scott Manley'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZq3GXJrqw4

Cost Concerns For NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-7QnhIieo

Robert Zubrin is right about the NASA Mars Sample Return Mission! Here's why!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXK1V67VCec
social media channel 'The Angry Astronaut'

Last edited by Mars_B4_Moon (2024-05-06 14:19:56)