Recent content by Ruggles

Exactly my point... Astronauts exercise at least 2 hours per day, yet still need to be carried off of the return vessels after 6-8 months on the ISS.

Given that after many months on the ISS in micro gravity, Astro/Cosmonauts returning to Earth have to be assisted from the capsule and take a period of time to reacclimate to full gravity., and even knowing that Mars' gravity is less that that of Earth, shouldn't providing artificial gravity...

I have been following the space program since its inception and being a avid reader in my youth of the Edgar Rice Burroughs/ John Carter of Mars series, I was particularly fascinated by the Mariner IV probe to Mars, which was the first to send close up pictures of another planet. I was somewhat...