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Return of the Argonauts

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The completion of the first Argosy mission to Mars.The two mission spacecraft (in the foreground) have used their NERVA nuclear engines a final time to brake and insert themselves into low Earth orbit. Here the ships will be re-provisioned and refueled for the next Mars mission. The 12 astronauts of this mission will spend the next three months in isolation in the cylindrical Isolation lab, undergoing medical checks and ensuring they have not brought back any Martian microbes. The lab will be resupplied and crewed by Medical staff ferried up in space shuttles like that stationkeeping near-by.
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templerman

And the really amazing thing? All of these technologies were purposed by NASA as an extention of APOLLO, in a 1970 document laying out a plan to build a space station orbital infrastructure, a twenty-five person base on the moon, and missions to Mars All by the year 2001. Of course it was never to be. POTOS Richard M. Nixon determined that stopping communism in Viet Nam was more important then the beginning of the exploration of the solar system. Great artwork on this scene. Cheers.