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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Spend as much money as you like but it'd be at least a decade before manned missions could go anywhere and they'd be small at first. Possibly for a significant period of time as well. Realistic space flight is just hard.
I'd give it 2 years for an unmanned flyby also. The Viking landings could probably happen as scheduled in 1976, maybe with altered instrument packages..
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I think with the Atlas V still in production and a revived NERVA we might be able to get to Mars in less than 5 years.