From Mike Sanders's Travel To Mars

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This story is a collection of the extracts of a first person narrative of Mike Sanders, a member of a crew of a spacecraft involved into a space exploration mission. In this story, NASA had been keeping a secret regarding its plans to build a base on Titan in order to maintain political stability in the world after the 2050s. Although the narrative bears personal reflections about this situation, it is supplied with valuable facts regarding the sun and space weather, propulsion and orbital mechanics and planetary characteristics.
May 2017 I warmly greet you, people on the other side! As you might know, my name is Mike Sanders, and I am great to start this video blog because I am officially a member of the crew that would go to Mars in several …show more content…

As it turns out, the mission is full of surprises because of the invention of a new propellant in 2018. As a result, our advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle has a propelling power four times greater than it used to. This change was followed by diverse consequences because of which the spacecraft would carry more supplies and equipment to use them on Mars. My particular interest is focused on the rear part of the spacecraft because its sections are welded and no one is aware of their content. The mission control says that these materials would be used on Mars and early access may spoil their sterility and physical stability. I tend to believe them because these people are mission critical and our lives are in their …show more content…

We had an initial possibility for reaching the speed of 11.2 kilometers per second in order to completely break free from the gravity of our planet and direct the spacecraft to Mars (“Speed Needed to Escape the Earth (Escape Velocity)”). Actually, PLNV had even more propelling capacity because it was enough for it to reach the velocity of 617.2 km/s and escape the Solar system in the case we started directly from the Sun (“Speed Needed to Escape the Earth (Escape Velocity)”). However, due to the aspects mentioned in April, the immediate trip to Mars was impossible. Thus, we had to use our axis moving speed and boost it with our nuclear-plasmatic engine in order to give the spacecraft enough kinetic energy of more than 11.2 km/s to free ourselves from the gravitational constant of our planet (“Speed Needed to Escape the Earth (Escape Velocity)”). As a consequence, after the crew mounted the solar sails and additional solar panels, it became possible to increase the axis velocity of the spaceship up to 450 km/s and achieve the expected parabolic deviation of motion from the planet (“Speed Needed to Escape the Earth (Escape Velocity)”). What surprised me was that we had much more powerful engine that we needed to reach Mars. I mean it was never enough to reach the highest speed possible, but the mission control calculated the trajectory of landing exactly for this

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