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TMK was the designation of a Soviet space exploration project to send a crewed flight to Mars and Venus without landing.
Artist's depiction of TMK-MAVR on a Venus flyby
Mars mission
Human mission to Mars
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The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. Long-term proposals have includ
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…Launch Vehicle: N1 Human mission to Mars Manned Venus flyby…
Concept for a Mars base, with ice home, pressurized rover, and Mars suits, 2016
Three views of Mars, Hubble Space Telescope, 1997
Inserts depict observation and analysis to find a safe landing site.
Artistic vision of spacecraft providing artificial gravity by spinning (see also Centrifugal force)