Posted on 01/19/2014 3:25:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
In a recent workshop hosted by Explore Mars Inc. and the American Astronautical Society, and attended by 60 experts and professionals from various countries, industries, universities and organizations; it was determined that a mission to Mars may soon be possible by the year 2030. However, there are a number of requirements that need to be fulfilled if a mission of this scale is to succeed. First of all, a mission to Mars will require the cooperation of the international community for it to have any chance at success. Moreover, the mission will also need to be backed by private enterprises. Given that NASA is the largest space agency in the world right now, it would also make sense for the effort to be spearheaded by the American space agency. However, the American government will need to restore the agency's budget to what it once was before the agency was sequestered. Working with its current budget, NASA would be hard pressed to pull off a mission to Mars in less than 30 years.
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And if any actually do it, they will regret it for the rest of their lives on Mars.......
Why is that?
They’ll be the first people to land on Mars and the first to do everything else.
NASA’s Secret Fear; The total estimated cargo weight to send “the two most highly nominated launch candidates”
could rival the atomic weight of plutonium. What to do?
Perhaps the greatest concentration of weight volume could be Ejection-Offloaded as soon as the spacecraft first clears The Milky Way.
We should have been on Mars by 1983.
2030s... how sad is that? All the visionaries of the 60’s/70’s had us out of the Solar System by now...
Never happen with any us govt money unnless the country is rebooted.
Billionaire Denis Tito has plan for Mars flyby in 2018
when Mars and Earth are at their closest
Proposed 2 person crew - married couple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration_Mars
... for the Chinese. Not America. Obama and Bush destroyed our space program to appease Marxists and Muslims. I'm surprised Obama didn't turn Cape Canaveral into a mosque.
HaHaHa. Very pithy!
1. explicitly do not make it a world enterprise.
2. private endeavor all the way. no government effing things up.
if it’s like every damn brochure lately, white woman and black male.
Remember years ago when volunteers isolated themselves in an artificial environment to see if it could be done?
They did it, but the stress became almost unbearable, and if I remember correctly all had a very negative experience. And it was for only one year.
Being cut off from all that is normal, family, friends, and forced into a small group of people who you have not chosen to be close to is so unnatural that I believe it would become a horrible experience - if not after one year, then after 2, 3, 5 - at some point. And the realization that your artificial world is not something you can ever leave, would end up being a horrible experience.
I believe this because I know human nature and have been working with people for almost 69 years.......
Of course, this is just my opinion........
thanks BenLurkin.
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