The cycler station is an interesting idea. Seems to me you'd still have to accelerate the crew and supplies to an Earth-Mars orbit every time, but the habitat

The cycler station is an interesting idea. Seems to me you'd still have to accelerate the crew and supplies to an Earth-Mars orbit every time, but the habitat would only have to be accelerated to that orbit once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler