NASA's Abandoned Plan To Colonize Mars (declassified)

NASA's Abandoned Plan To Colonize Mars

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[Will-fciu]

One of the best episodes so far. A 1970s mission to Mars would have been amazing.

[brianarbenz]

In 1973 I bought a plastic model Nerva engine -- with what the model maker called the "Pilgrim Observer" spaceship to go to and from Mars. I glued the thing together, including an artificial gravity module, a hydroponic garden module to produce oxygen, and a module with nuclear reactors to produce electricity.
But this was considerably less expensive than the actual Nerva-powered ship that Nixon declined to fund.

[MadJustin]

I for one am happy for the operational pause in human space exploration. NASA needed to let technology catch up with their ambitions. That fact that we didn't have any fatalities in space during the Apollo missions was a stroke of good luck. Operating on the very edge of our capabilities is extremely dangerous. With a few near misses to showcase how close to the edge we were running things back then.

[johnstewart]

Thank you. I was a fan of this era and knew that humanity COULD have succeeded if the national will had permitted the effort

[XenoRaptor-]

Is anyone else thinking what would of happen or how different the world could if this nasa mission success back then?

[praveenveeranki]

There was an web series called FOR ALL MANKIND

[alf]

The V2 wasn't the first long range guided missile. It was the first long range balistic rocket... Tilt etc. Worked trough timer that where set before the start after calculating spesific numbers for the location they where firing it from...

[hotflashfoto]

Dang! You got to the end with Nixon and didn't tell us what he chose to do! Was it the Mars Mission or the Space Shuttle? I won't be able to sleep until you tell me! What a cliff hanger!

[johndoepker]

This was a really well done video!!! A mix of History .... with a vision of the Future... !!! Very well done indeed !!!

[ghijcamp]

Listening to RFK Jr talk about his father's funeral made me cry in mourning for what could have been.

[brettatton]

The weekly TV show was called The Wonderful World of Disney not Disneyland. Disneyland was the first theme park in LA. They quite often promoted Disneyland on the TV show. The weekly episodes came from the various 'lands' that co-responded to the themed areas of the park.

[chrischris]

Love the Mars glider and rocket return option. Real Visionary!

[Joao-urey]

Maybe I'm from a different timeline where all of this actually happened because for some reason as a child, I was so damn sure humanity had already reached Mars, had lunar bases and astronauts would go to the moon all the time...

When I got older and actually learned the truth I was so disappointed. lol

[blackfly]

Technological progress is so unpredictable and misunderstood. I remember hearing a computer scientist in the 80’s saying it would be nearly impossible to get a computer that could talk to you and understand human language like the one on Star Trek. He said it’s a hundred years off. Well, say hello to your i-phone or Alexa or maybe your toaster oven.

[rockymntnliberty]

NASA's 80-year plan to colonize Mars, that made me laugh. I'm envisioning NASA finally arriving in 80 years to have their first NASA astronaut step foot on the red planet, and just has a set foot on the soil, 20 colonists from the the SpaceX in colony coming out to say welcome you're good about time you guys got here, we have your habitat ready. Did you bring the pizza we ordered?

[NoobNoob]

For all mankind is as close as we will get to that reality

[anthonybarcellos]

Spiro Agnew, Nixon's vice president, was cheerleading for a Mars mission right after the first moon landing. He was widely mocked, and one editorial cartoonist depicted him strapped to the side of a rocket blasting into space. (He later resigned from office in a "nolo contendere" plea bargain on bribery charges. He might have been better off blasted into space.)

[braydenbrennan]

A great show similar to this is for all man kind

[xitheris]

The main issue with sending humans to Mars is radiation exposure. The Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere provide *a* *lot* of protection that humans frankly need. The best solution we've found is to bury Mars bases and spend as little time as possible on the surface and in transit. NASA is currently designing a nuclear rocket that they'll test in the next few years — because chemical rockets just aren't gonna be good enough.

[Pisti]

The real tragedy is that we never built a base on the moon.