Looks aside, NASA’s Orion is “lightyears ahead of what they had in Apollo”

Redundancy is key to travel "farther away than any human spacecraft has ever been.”

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Are Orion's landing systems and heat shield sufficient for a Mars return trajectory?

 

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Hydrargyrum[/url]":1hcreoyh]Are Orion's landing systems and heat shield sufficient for a Mars return trajectory?

With a 21 day life support system will it really matter?

In principle, a service module/hab would provide the necessary life support. But if Orion can't survive a landing at the speed of a Mars return trajectory, then even building the hab isn't enough.

Translunar but not Mars is a weird target capability for the project.