1/5/2004: Welcome to Mars

[Serk]

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.....