Comment 2WQ5 Re: Of course you can use rockets

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Of course you can use rockets (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-01-14 03:30 (#2WQ4)

Rockets are fine for landing in Mars gravity. They work for landing in Earth gravity too. The problem is that it's really expensive to send enough rocket fuel to Mars to land with rockets.

Re: Of course you can use rockets (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-01-14 04:59 (#2WQ5)

Rockets are fine for landing in Mars gravity.
The rocket scientist being interviewed, strongly disagrees with your assessment...

e.g. "would likely destroy the vehicle."

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