Gallery: A Wildly Detailed 100-Year Plan for Getting Humans to Mars

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    Ron Jones' Integrated Space Plan outlined the next 100 years of space travel.
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    Jones designed the graphic representation as a flowchart of lines, boxes, and circles.
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    It's a challenging piece of graphic design that's nearly impossible to read in space places.
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    Design studio 212 Box redesigned the ISP to rely more on pictorial depictions of data. Here you see the breakdown of space-related budgets.
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    The boxes are color-coded to signify if they relate to terrestrial, lunar, or Mars-related projects.
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    A view of launch sites across the world.
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