by Marsprojekt48 on 12 Jun 2011 02:57 General question: (I tried to post before but lost my Internet connection while submitting; please forgive if redundant)
I am writing an apolitical novel loosely based on Wernher von Braun's "Project Mars: A Technical Tale". He wrote the book in 1948-9 while in US Army custody at Fort Bliss, Texas after they were through milking him about V 2's but before putting him to work designing ICBM's. (And later spaceships, his real love.) Without revealing plot details, I'm having a mixed crew of scientists, military specialists and (for a while anyway) Party hacks head for Mars to establish a base/colony. The war has temporarily stalemated but there is NO Nazi victory in this book. The mission would involve details of "Women in the Reich", "Life under the Third Reich", "Small Arms", "Other Equipment" and even gardening and general atitudes. Life away from the outside air in cramped quarters would be somewhat like "U-boats". I would really appreciate guidance from those many people on this list who are far more knowledgeable than I. Is this okay?
Axis History Forum
This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations, as well as the First and Second World Wars in general hosted by Marcus Wendel's Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Michael Miller's Axis Biographical Research and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day.
It is the largest ever devised Mars expedition: 70 astronauts, ten spacecrafts - 3720 metric tons each, 950 launches from Johnston Island, and of course much more hospitable Mars than we know today.
