Mars Excursion Module

The Mars Excursion Module (MEM) was a spacecraft proposed by NASA in the 1960s for use in a manned mission to Mars. It formed part of a Mars Flyby-Rendezvous mission profile studied at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in the 1960s, in which spacecraft would not enter orbit but rendezvous near the planet.^[1] The Mars Excursion Module would have been a combination of a Mars lander, short-stay surface habitat, and ascent vehicle; the ascent stage performed the rendezvous.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b Portree, David S. F. (February 2001). "Chapter 3: EMPIRE and After". NASA SP-2001-4521 Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950 - 2000. NASA Monographs in Aerospace History Series. pp. 15–18. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)

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[portree2001flyby-1] Portree, David S. F. (February 2001). "Chapter 3: EMPIRE and After". NASA SP-2001-4521 Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950 - 2000. NASA Monographs in Aerospace History Series. pp. 15–18. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)

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