Concept 6 – Mars Transfer Vehicle
Inspired by Publication:
“Concept 6: An Artificial Gravity Mars Spaceship”
by Clark, B.C. (Martin Marietta Astronautics Group, CO, USA)
Space Technology, vol. 11, no. 4, 1991
(no online source available at time of writing)

Also cited in publication NASA/TM—2016-219393 – AIAA–2014–3623
“Conventional and Bimodal Nuclear Thermal
Rocket (NTR) Artificial Gravity Mars
Transfer Vehicle Concepts”
by Stanley K. Borowski
Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
David R. McCurdy and Thomas W. Packard
Vantage Partners, LLC, Brook Park, Ohio
December 2016
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160014801.pdf
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Credits:
3D Models and animation © fragomatik 2018 All Rights Reserved
https://www.youtube.com/fragomatik

Music
“Into the Depths” & “Warrior Strife” by Jingle Punks
(courtesy youtube audio library)

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Special Thanks to my fellow Imagine-junkie, Karsten (3D-Marabu on YouTube) for sharing his techniques for groovy volumetric effects, which I used during the “re-entry” sequence at 2m41s!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTBrLwTxSNSFMqyhRibaZnQ/featured
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Images
“Mars Odyssey THEMIS Mosaic – Valles Marineris”
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter.
…and…
“Daybreak on Mars (at the Gale Crater)”
Photo by Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter

Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

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