Mars and Beyond

By Raymond Wisniewski

Most of this book is fiction about the possible exploration
of Mars in the future and travel to a near star. There are
enough facts mentioned about progress in space travel to
support the fact that more advanced space travel is possible.
Having a colony of people on Mars could provide ideas
to people living on earth to have a more healthy life. With
growing world population and declining resources, because
of the degrading environment we must think about life in the
future.
With Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong was able to set foot on
the surface of the moon and give the first opportunity for
astronauts to travel in space outside of the earths orbit. He
wore a pressurized space suit to move about on the moons
surface. Because the moon has no air or water, he had to
return to earth in a short time. Additional Apollo trips were
made to the moon including a moon buggy for short range
transportation. Further trips to the moon were canceled
because of the development of the International Space
Station and the Shuttle. Rocket probes and robotic rovers
which made the voyage to Mars landed to explore for water
and minerals.
Rockets have become double edged sword that can
be used for Fourth of July celebrations and for space
exploration, where they are put to good use. When used in
warfare as ICBMs or in small military missiles, they can
become leathal tools of war. This book is partially factual
dealing with rocket events that have occurred. Some of the
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mostly fiction Martian rocket events, in the book, still have
to happen.
Hermann Oberth, a German physicist was considered,
The Father of Space Travel, who Werner von Braun
admired. The United States allowed Werner von Braun
to come to America after World War II to prevent German
missile technology from falling into Russian hands and
help the U.S. Army missile programs to get started and
developed.
Our space technology grew from von Brauns early work
on Army missiles and with his work at the NASA George
C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Rocket work at Redstone
Arsenal paved the way for NASA to develop the Apollo
moon rocket. After the Apollo missions to the moon, rocket
propulsion helped lift the Space Shuttle and Space Station
into earth orbit. The idea of going to Mars was considered
the next space goal.
The use of robotics in space, sending a men to Mars
and finding life somewhere in space has stimulated space
enthusiasts. Rocket propulsion has shown that payloads
can be carried from small distances to intercontinental and
outer space distances. Rockets have been and are now being
used for peaceful purposes to put up satellites for television,
communication systems and for GPS uses.
Robotic vehicles as the Curiosity rover have landed
on Mars and have explored for water and atmospheric
conditions. To use of robotic vehicles and robots aiding
astronauts in the future can paved the way for the eventual
use of human astronauts for trips to Mars.
There have been many science fiction stories about
Mars. The stories have told about people living on Mars in
advanced societies and how easy it was to take trips to Mars
and fly around in rocket spaceships. We know now that Mars
has a hostile environment with no air for humans and no
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liquid water is to be found. This book shows the challenges
of going to Mars and the stars and providing life support for
the astronauts.
This book is dedicated to my family and friends and to
those who have helped me along the way to gain knowledge
and move to a life in engineering and rocket technology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483686851

Raymond Wisniewski

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Mars and Beyond

Raymond Wisniewski

Copyright © 2013 by Raymond Wisniewski.

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Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1 Deadly Weapons

Chapter 2 Space Exploration

Chapter 3 NASA and the Red Planet

Chapter 4 Moon Base

Chapter 5 Robots in Space

Chapter 6 Mars First Round-Trip

Chapter 7 Man on Mars

Chapter 8 Robots to Mars

Chapter 9 Mars Base

Chapter 10 Valles Marineris

Chapter 11 Mars Colony

Chapter 12 Survival

Chapter 13 Beyond Mars

Chapter 14 Return to Earth

Prologue

Most of this book is fiction about the possible exploration of Mars in the future and travel to a near star. There are enough facts mentioned about progress in space travel to support the fact that more advanced space travel is possible. Having a colony of people on Mars could provide ideas to people living on earth to have a more healthy life. With growing world population and declining resources, because of the degrading environment we must think about life in the future.

With Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong was able to set foot on the surface of the moon and give the first opportunity for astronauts to travel in space outside of the earth’s orbit. He wore a pressurized space suit to move about on the moon’s surface. Because the moon has no air or water, he had to return to earth in a short time. Additional Apollo trips were made to the moon including a moon buggy for short range transportation. Further trips to the moon were canceled because of the development of the International Space Station and the Shuttle. Rocket probes and robotic rovers which made the voyage to Mars landed to explore for water and minerals.

Rockets have become double edged sword that can be used for Fourth of July celebrations and for space exploration, where they are put to good use. When used in warfare as ICBMs or in small military missiles, they can become leathal tools of war. This book is partially factual dealing with rocket events that have occurred. Some of the mostly fiction Martian rocket events, in the book, still have to happen.

Hermann Oberth, a German physicist was considered, The Father of Space Travel, who Werner von Braun admired. The United States allowed Werner von Braun to come to America after World War II to prevent German missile technology from falling into Russian hands and help the U.S. Army missile programs to get started and developed.

Our space technology grew from von Braun’s early work on Army missiles and with his work at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Rocket work at Redstone Arsenal paved the way for NASA to develop the Apollo moon rocket. After the Apollo missions to the moon, rocket propulsion helped lift the Space Shuttle and Space Station into earth orbit. The idea of going to Mars was considered the next space goal.

The use of robotics in space, sending a men to Mars and finding life somewhere in space has stimulated space enthusiasts. Rocket propulsion has shown that payloads can be carried from small distances to intercontinental and outer space distances. Rockets have been and are now being used for peaceful purposes to put up satellites for television, communication systems and for GPS uses.

Robotic vehicles as the Curiosity rover have landed on Mars and have explored for water and atmospheric conditions. To use of robotic vehicles and robots aiding astronauts in the future can paved the way for the eventual use of human astronauts for trips to Mars.

There have been many science fiction stories about Mars. The stories have told about people living on Mars in advanced societies and how easy it was to take trips to Mars and fly around in rocket spaceships. We know now that Mars has a hostile environment with no air for humans and no liquid water is to be found. This book shows the challenges of going to Mars and the stars and providing life support for the astronauts.

This book is dedicated to my family and friends and to those who have helped me along the way to gain knowledge and move to a life in engineering and rocket technology.

1

Deadly Weapons

The Blitz

The Blitz (from German, lightening) was the sustained strategic bombing of England during the Second World War. During the attacks 100 tons of high explosives were dropped. The bombing did not achieve its intended goal of demoralizing the Brithish into surrender or significantly damage the war economy. The German air offensive failed to destroy Britian’s war industries.

The RAF finally gained mastery over the English skies and especially over London after the terrific German bomber blitz over London. Air raid sirens were the only source of warning as the bombers approached London. Spotlights pierced the night sky so antiaircraft guns could obtain targets. RAF pilots shot down as many bombers as they could to protect the civilian population and buildings. Eventually the air raids stopped as the German Air Force could not sustain the heavy bomber losses. But the calm after the ending of the German air raids was not to last for long.

Germany had a new flying weapon called te V-1. These would keep flying until the ramjet engine shutoff, and then the V-1 would drop like a bomb to a target below. By September 1944 most of the flying buzz bombs were being shot down before they reached London and on September 7th it was proclaimed that the battle of London was over. But one day later a huge explosion blasted Stavely Road Cheswick, there was no warning no air raid siren, this was something new.

Three people died and 17 where seriously injured in the tragedy which reduced rows of houses to the appearance of a battlefield. Londoners have heard for the first time the distinctive sound of the rocket. First the explosion, second overall the rocket motors catching up and lastly the noise of the sonic boom from the upper atmosphere. The noise could be heard all over the capital. The V-2 to attacks went on until 18 September about that time 14 had fallen on London area when they abruptly stopped because of the Allied operation market Garden which forced the rocket batteries to withdraw where they continued to fire but could only reach a East Anglia. London had temporary relief.

Before it was over the V-2 rocket killed 89,038 Londoners and injured 25,000 People went scurrying into air raid shelters. After every airraid