Voyage
by Stephen Baxter · first published 1996
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In a parallel world where JFK survived the assassination attempt in Dallas, as the Apollo programme reaches its triumphant goal the former President encourages NASA to build on this success and send men to Mars.
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"Voyage" by Stephen Baxter is a very good hard sf alternate history novel about what could have happened if the US had pushed on to Mars after Apollo. Not much about the actual exploration of Mars, but a good…
on “Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars” ↗…blog post mentions in passing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA Project Rover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rover For hard scifi buffs, check out Stephen Baxter's space-program-alt-hist novel Voyage, where (among other things) NERVA is revived for a manned Mars shot. I'm kinda surprised to see this; I thought that public acceptance of nuclear-related programs would be at a low, after Fukushima.…
on “NASA Proposal to Revive Nuclear Thermal Space Propulsion Development” ↗Read Voyage and Titan from Stephen Baxter. He was an astronaut candidate and write two great books about NASA.
on “A rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia” ↗There is great sci-fi novel Voyage from Stephen Baxter which describes such minimal mission. It is alternative history where NASA landed on Mars in 1980-ties.
on “A Minimal Architecture for Human Journeys to Mars” ↗I love this book and read it at the same time as reading the book “Voyage” by Stephen Baxter that has some similar sections with teams of people quickly building advanced aerospace projects. Because of this two books are interwoven in my brain, it’s a weird mashup.
on “Why was the F-117 retired so quickly?” ↗I wager there's quite a few stories exploring this premise. I remember reading Stephen Baxter's "Voyage" in the 90s, in which Kennedy escapes his assasination, the Apollo program ends rather differently and NASA subsequently stretches/evolves the hardware to put a crewed mission on Mars, rather than building…
on “Just another Apollo? Part two (2005)” ↗