Watch that meter...
Dude, we don’t have anything to keep us alive/asleep long enough to get there.
Bring back the Deadelus project.
Corporations and PRIVATE companies exploiting space???? How will we control them?? They’ll steal all the space!!!/s
I already feel like I’ve been living on Mars for the past 25 years.
Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career
Mrs. FD and I continue to discuss why they didn't space or at least strand Dr. Smith.
There are serious problems to human space travel.
Radiation is dangerous, not to mention that the vacuum and cold of space is a tad inhospitable.
Also, the costs to create livable space ships and bases are rather high.
But, a solution could be Robot Avatars with high definition sensory interface with human operators.
This way you could explore the surface of the moon or other planets without danger and experience it as if you were there.
Even the sense of touch could be replicated and the interface could be linked directly to your thoughts by brain wave reading devices.
But, the time it takes to send radio signals from earth to Mars and back is 14 minutes (unless sending signals through quantum time travel is developed).
So, even with avatars we would need some kind of hospital base on the surface or in orbit.
Create a comfortable domed city, then use robot avatars to explore.
See:”Robotic Avatars —Are They the Future of Space Exploration?” http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/10/are-robotic-avatars-the-future-of-space-exploration.html
The Olympus Mons peak is 14 miles high!
A more fitting and factual title would have been:
NEXT STOP: Automatic Shutdown and Mission Scrub,
(Due to faulty valve not detected by anyone until seconds before blastoff!)/S
Everything appears normal at NASA. SNAFU!
Meh, been there. Done that.