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Old 01-05-2004, 06:12 PM   #11
Serk
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Originally posted by blue58
Also it seems the rovers got there in about seven months or so, but I thought they always projected a manned trip to be a 3 year ride?
The reason I've read is that with human cargo, they can't exert the tremendous acceleration and de-celeration G forces that they can put a mechanical probe through, thus a manned mission would have to go slower, plus not take quite as efficient of a route...

Us human's are just too fragile for that.....
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