Life On Mars - Illustration of a martian exploration by Fred Freeman featured in a Collier’s magazine article, Can We Get To MARS? - 30 April 1954. The article was written by Dr. Wernher von Braun, a chief rocket scientist from National Socialist Germany - after WWII Braun was taken in by the U.S. and became the principal architect of the U.S. space program. His title: Chief, Guided Missile Development Division, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama.
Once down, the pioneer landing party will unload its tractors and supplies, inflate it’s balloonlike living quarters, and start on a 4000-mile overland journey to the martian equator, where the expedition’s main base will be set up.
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