1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

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Mars For The Rest of Us — a weekly-or-more deep dive on the technical side of Mars exploration: rocket propulsion, microbiology, mission architecture, and everything in between. Written by Maciej Ceglowski.

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Burt Rutan Will Say Something Cool Too …

Yuriy Gagarin said “Let’s Go!” (Poyekhali!)
Alan Shepard said “Why don’t you fix your little problems and light this candle?”
Valentina Tereshkova according to rumors fainted and didn’t say anything or screamed “let me out of here” or something to that effect. We’ll probably never know the truth.
Neil Armstrong said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” (and we’ll probably never know conclusively if he said “a man” or “man”.)
The question is – what did Yang Liwei say?

1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

worth a read

Mars For The Rest of Us — a weekly-or-more deep dive on the technical side of Mars exploration: rocket propulsion, microbiology, mission architecture, and everything in between. Written by Maciej Ceglowski.

Read it on Substack