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While among the countries – participants of the project “International space station “- there is a discussion of plans for the future, that is close the ISS or continue its work after completion planned work period, many states, for example, Russia, China, Japan, the United States are already thinking about space stations The moon and even the red planet.
For example, Lockheed Martin recently introduced a project SC, which can be placed in the orbit of Mars in the near the future (at least the designers themselves, for some reason, in this one hundred percent sure).
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The Martian project already has a name – Mars Base Camp. Besides the most station he suggests the MADV apparatus, with which astronauts will be able to periodically descend to the surface of the Red Planet. Quadruple module, for soft landing it is planned use engines like those used today on Falcon 9, and the prototype of the device itself will be the NASA Orion ship. MADV will run on liquid oxygen or hydrogen. All the necessary components can be obtained from water, splitting it with using solar energy.
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In the long run, Lockheed Martin plans to develop another transport spacecraft necessary for delivering water to your Martian space station, rather from the nearest asteroids.
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