Blueprints for the red planet: manned missions to Mars may be a long way off, but planning has already begun. (Future Technology).

From: Machine Design | Date: September 19, 2002| Author: Mraz, Stephen J. | Copyright information

The first serious proposal for sending humans to Mars is credited to Werner Von Braun, the rocket engineer who designed V2 missiles for Germany during World War II. In 1952, he outlined plans for a fleet of spaceships that would carry dozens of men to Mars and back. But it was expensive and no one seemed interested.

Shortly after, the U.S. and Soviet Russia duked it out in a space race, part of which involved landing data-gathering spacecraft on Mars in the 1960s and 70s...

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