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Looks like Mr Musk might need some lessons from Lars......
Ah. It was only because he (SpaceX) has failed to land 2 mars ships so far!!!!
Assume a 1 G thrust all-the-way (turnover mid-flight, of course).
https://www.quora.com/How-much-thrust-is-1G-and-how-fast-would-it-take-us-to-get-to-Mars
21 hours at inferior conjunction.
56 hours at superior conjunction.
It took ~2.5 hours to descend to the lunar surface from orbit. Who knows how long for a manned Mars descent …
Interplanetary SF was a lot more fun when we didn’t need to worry about reaction mass (and motors) …
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Hello GT40 fans,I got the MIT version of Spacewar running. It was written by the Mini-Robot group at the AI lab.Their PDP-11/45 computer running DOS-11 and had a GT40 attached. I used "iamvirtual"'s DOS-11disk image to assemble the sources.