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Limits of Classical Space Travel (Art. 5)
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In 1962, a team of 10 leading astrodynamicists from Lockheed
Sunnyvale studied the possibility of achieving a nonstop free-fall
multiplanetary round-trip trajectory with a single spacecraft
launched from Earth, passing Venus and Mars (or Mars and
Venus), and returning to Earth. They presented an astrodynamic
argument that they believed showed that the launch energy
requirements were so high, the possibility was an "academic
pastime" that might be achieved with nuclear propulsion. See
page 5-1 of their 180 page Final Report.
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