Wernher von Braun published The Mars Project in English in 1953, decades before any spacecraft had successfully reached Mars. That work gave early Mars colonization literature an engineering vocabulary: trajectories, spacecraft mass, orbital assembly, surface operations, crew organization, and logistics. Von Braun imagined an expedition far larger than later mission studies, but the intellectual pattern proved persistent. A Mars settlement could…
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