{"id":4261,"date":"2015-08-31T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2015-09-16T19:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:11:18","slug":"aerojet-rocketdyne-mars-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2015\/08\/31\/aerojet-rocketdyne-mars-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerojet Rocketdyne: “Mars and Beyond”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cMars has water, Mars has a lot of the elements that make it possible to have life, and, it is the planet in the solar system that is the most like Earth where we can go to actually put humans on to explore and to eventually someday to colonize Mars. And that\u2019s important for the survival of humanity.\u201d\u00a0
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\u201cMy first recollection of Mars was, I remember being at Disney Land, I remember they had an exhibit, right, Tomorrowland, you know, the place where they have all the futuristic things, they had, Mars rovers\u2026before that point like I didn\u2019t really connect that Mars was a real place – when I saw those Mars rovers I realized, wow, those are on another planet. [\u2026] There\u2019re pivotal points in human history and it\u2019s just one of those things that, for the rest of time it will be remembered: the people\u2019s efforts that went into that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe one thing I\u2019ve always thought of as Mars is, when they describe it as the planet that\u2019s most similar to Earth, which, of course makes you think \u201cWell, that\u2019s the first one we should visit.\u201d\u201d \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember the first time that I saw some pictures from the surface of Mars\u2026it would have been in the early nineties. And I thought, \u201cWow, this is a real place that you can go to\u201d and I know that I want to advance the program so that we can go there.\u201d\u00a0\"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we first see that launch, it\u2019s gonna be real cool, because, it\u2019ll demonstrate that ‘yes we really are headed to Mars’.\u201d
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\u201cSo using SLS Orion and Solar-Electric propulsion gives us the fastest and safest way to get to Mars. I\u2019m very excited because we have a great suite of propulsion on every stage of the SLS vehicle.\u201d \"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be using existing assets and adapting them to the vehicle for the first few flights and we\u2019re also in the process of bringing back up the production line and infusing modern manufacturing techniques, into building the RS25 of the future.\u201d \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a>