It looks like they get annual shipments. That requirement seems like it would be a show-stopper for Mars, right? I mean we can queue up shipments so that they get a constant yearly train, but there will be times where the trajectories to Mars aren't very favorable I think...
McMurdo is useful at least as a science mission, in the sense that it studies a part of the planet that humans live on. There is basically an infinite number of empty, dead rocks out there in space -- we shouldn't waste research focus on this particularly large one that happens to be nearby.
McMurdo is useful at least as a science mission, in the sense that it studies a part of the planet that humans live on. There is basically an infinite number of empty, dead rocks out there in space -- we shouldn't waste research focus on this particularly large one that happens to be nearby.