UMPIRE Convair
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Class: Manned. Type: Mars Expedition. Destination: Mars. Nation: USA. Manufacturer: Convair.

Unfavorable Manned Planetary - Interplanetary Roundtrip Expedition profiles were studied under NASA Huntsville contracts to General Dynamics and Douglas in June 1963.

The studies looked at manned Mars missions at unfavorable mission opportunities (e.g. 1975, 1977). Convair concluded that only conjunction class long-duration 800-1000 day missions were feasible at such opportunities.

Design Life: 1000 days.

Bibliography and Further Reading
  • Miller, Ron, The Dream Machines, Krieger, Malabar, Florida, 1993. ISBN: 0894640399. Sensational chronological roundup of text, photos, and sketches of virtually every spacecraft and launch vehicle design every conceived but never built. A gold mine for space-struck baby boomers. More at amazon.com...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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