Mars transport name?

>>>>In reference to "... an asteroid that frequently crossed paths with
Earth's orbit and Mars's orbit ...", John Lewis in Mining the Sky,
Addison-Wesley, 1996, discuss using such cyclers to have a sort-of
scheduled
bus services to Mars and the asteroid belt. But to get on, one would need
to match their velocity, or else there would be a collision, and if one has
the same velocity as the cycler, then you would already be in the same
orbit. So apart from the shielding and maybe an opportunity working the
raw
materials while in route, I don't see the advantage. Orbital periods to
the
main belt are 3 to 5 years, so a round trip would be at least that, making
the 3 day travel time to the Moon seem rather attractive.
Sincerely,
Jay S. Huebner at jhuebn@...

If we are talking about a carbonaceous chondrite, with large supplies of
carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen, then one obvious advantage would be, that
you don't have to take along all of the consumables that you need.

Providing transportation for colonists wanting to go to Mars, could be a
potential source of revenue for an L5 industry. Large mass driver propelled
ships, capable of carrying several thousand people per trip, could easily
be constructed at L5. O'Neill described such large, Mass driver propelled
vessels in his book, "the High Frontier". With large amounts of asteroidal
material available at L5, we could easily manufacture all of the
consumables needed to support such a population, for a year long trip to
Mars. The food could be grown as surplass in L5 habitat rings. The
propellant for the mass driver would most likely be frozen oxygen, produced
as 'waste' from the L5 industries.

Tony