Ares Mission to Mars: Арес Миссия на Марс

Original version uploaded on March 23, 2009 An Orbiter addon based on the novel Voyage by Stephen Baxter. Voyage is an alternativehistory narrative in which the US President Richard Nixon makes a fateful decision in 1972 to abandon the Shuttle program and concentrate all efforts on a manned landing on Mars. On March 21 1986, astronauts Phil Stone (commander), Natalie York (specialist) and Ralph Gershon (MEM pilot) launch on the Saturn VB a Saturn upgraded with the addition of solidrocket boosters which allows it to loft double the mass of the original Saturn V. After a Venus swingby on September 8, they complete a 368 day outward voyage to finally land on Mars on March 28, 1986. MISSION ARES OPERATIONS 1: LAUNCH March 21, 1985. The Ares Mission Stack is launched on a Saturn VB. 2: ORBIT The Mission Stack makes rendezvous with the Propulsion Stack and the two dock. 3: VENUS TRANSFER The whole stack will begin the Venus tra br, br,