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Hermes from 'The Martian'

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Inspired by the excellent book 'The Martin' by Andy Weir www.andyweirauthor.com/ this is a concept of the Hermes spacecraft transporting six astronauts from Earth to Mars. 

The pictures shows Hermes during the Mars orbit insertion maneuver using its ion thrusters. When Hermes approaches Mars it has to slow down from a high encounter speed of 10 km/s, which is the price for a short travel time of only 124 days from Earth to Mars orbit. 

The spacecraft is 85 m long, allowing it to spin at 3 rpm during cruise to create a Mars-like artificial gravity.

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Someone (not me) recreated this in Kerbal Space Program:

www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpacePr…