From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 10:54:45 MDT
Michael S. Lorrey writes:
> It is an idea that has been considered, however the problems of maintaining
> rotating and non-rotating sections of a ship or space station adds to complexity
The only nonrotating section you need on a Mars mission is the antenna
array, not even that, if the whole axis is aligned.
A truss-connected dumbbell would do.
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