Robots, Humans and Future Exploration

Ques­tion. Jim Green ? Mars is half the size of Earth it might take many years for Rover to dis­cov­er pos­si­ble life espe­cial­ly search­ing in an arrear like in the Sau­di Ara­bi­an desert which also was once cov­ered under an vast ocean mil­lions of years ago. 

Sad to say, I don’t believe any of it. I don’t blame NASA. Our cur­rent “lead­ers” lack the vision and deter­mi­na­tion to put humans on Mars. Kennedy set the goal and Con­gress gave NASA a blank check and we put peo­ple on the moon 6 times, 40 years ago, with less high tech than in our cell phones. All of NASA con­sti­tutes less than 1% of the nation­al bud­get. You can’t get to Mars on the cheap. I guess we wait for Chi­na to get it done. The U.S. has capit­u­lat­ed Space. I mourn our weakness.

“” Next Slide Please “” very annoy­ing “” don’t do that please 

Ques­tion for Sam again. Has there been exper­i­ments to mim­ic arti­fi­cial grav­i­ty on the space sta­tion to help astro­nauts with health prob­lems regard­ing bone and mus­cle loss etc and to help NASA tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ment and research in design­ing bet­ter space­crafts and space sta­tions in the future for deep space travel.

Future seem great but the future start here now.

Let’s make this hap­pen now

wow, it’s been a year? great job guys!

One day they will find that we’ve already been to Mars…we killed it and we sent some of us over here to sur­vive. Of course we had to do away with the Nean­derthals when we got here…

Assm sla­mat datang pagi keluwar­ga nasa apa kabar keluwar­ga nasa dan rah­mawati umi mohon maap andai kata kurang sopan san­tun dan sla­mat datang pagi terun­tuk bapa pres­i­dent usa yg kami hor­mati + barak oba­ma yang rah­mawati umi hor­mati dan mohon maap apa bila kurang sopan sat­un rah­mawati umi mohon maap dan juga sla­mat datang pagi apa kabar terun­tuk keluwar­ga bapa pres­i­den indone­sia sby bang­bang susi­lo yang kami hor­mati dan sekali­gus para staf nya kami rah­mawati umi ter­i­ma kasih banyak

Assm sla­mat datang pagi apa kabar terun­tuk keluwar­ga google dunia yang rah­mawati umi hor­mati mohon maap andai kata kurang sopan sat­un kami rah­mawati umi ter­i­ma kasih banyak was­salam rah­mawati umi jhu­na kevin susi lawati lawati puser melayang ter­i­ma kasih

Very edu­ca­tion­al, thank you!

your account image seems inter­est­ing, can you send me the full size image please? 😀

I’m not Amer­i­can, but should the Amer­i­cans be the first to step foot on Mars, I’d see it as a suc­cess for human­i­ty. Mr. Bold­en Amer­i­cans aren’t above humanity.

Ques­tion for Sigh. If Nasa can process oxy­gen to breath and ener­gy (by wind tur­bines) from the Mar­t­ian atmos­phere. Ques­tion is there a mis­sion to find deep under­ground cav­erns made from Mar­t­ian ancient streams or vol­canic activ­i­ty etc. which could be sealed and used for nat­ur­al under­ground set­tle­ments and life ecol­o­gy (using the avail­able Mar­t­ian resources men­tioned above) and pave the way for out­er space ter­mi­nals for deep­er space travel.

See­ing that Mars had a mag­net­ic field and is half the size of Earth and Jim Green stat­ing Mars was much more like Earth bil­lions of years ago.
Ques­tion for Jim Green. Is this indi­ca­tion that Earth like Mars will even­tu­al­ly lose its mag­net­ic field and its atmos­phere will be slow­ly “Lost in Space”? Like Earth slow­ly melt­ing ice caps. 

my ques­tion is why does your head look like mars ?

 Bart Bols
My com­ment here was updat­ed based on a recent NASA video 8‑August ‑2014
of NASA build­ing a new type of saucer-shaped vehi­cle  with Jet Propul­sion Lab­o­ra­to­ry that uses infla­tion like a bal­loon with a para­chute to slow down larg­er and heav­ier  craft pay­loads instead of just improv­ing on there already Space Shuttle

NASA video showed the new test land­ing vehi­cle failed due to its hard to build a very large para­chute strong enough and light enough to with stand strong air pres­sures from land­ing such large objects like a small ware house.

 To me the new idea con­cept looked like NASA was going back­wards instead of for­wards, adding to more cost, time and com­pli­ca­tions? Exam­ples what if, like in the 1st deep space­craft satel­lite it could not ful­ly open, what if, Mar­t­ian air debris or any craft debris strikes the parachute?

When small debris falls of the Space Shut­tle like a heat shield it can still land and the heat tile can be eas­i­ly replaced back, how­ev­er one slight tear on a para­chute and the whole para­chute rips apart and its bye, bye or crew say­ing “Hous­ton we have a problem”.

NASA could test out a retired Space Shut­tle fit­ted with new land­ing inno­v­a­tive shock absorp­tion land­ing gear with wheels to match, they could update the (old) glide built Space Shut­tle with wing engines to give lift, with reverse thrust for slow down and place side thrust engines for a ver­ti­cal land­ing if needed.

They can test the Space Shut­tle loaded with heavy weights to test its land­ing gear to mim­ic Mars lighter atmos­phere and ground ter­rain landings.

NASA have enough pho­tographs of the Mar­t­ian ter­rain to dupli­cate a suit­able heavy  vehi­cle land­ing  tests and make the nec­es­sary land­ing gear improve­ments and the (new) Space Shut­tle could  be built to dri­ve around (as well as fly­ing down) to explore dif­fer­ent  loca­tions on Mars for broad­er explo­rations, espe­cial­ly when its return vehi­cle fuel will be process there.