Exploration forum showcases NASA’s Human Path to Mars

Good luck NASA! 🙂

sooo, will the manned mars mis­sion look like con­stel­la­tion or something ?

make it happen!

MO MONEY!

Ques­tion: John? see­ing that Mars is half the size of Earth and were dis­cov­er­ing new things on this plan­et  Earth all the time e.g. find­ing new alien species of plants, insects, sea life (and I even heard some coun­tries pres­i­dent declar­ing years back of a new lost tribe being dis­cov­ered  in some South Amer­i­can jun­gle?)  and when there is a miss­ing indi­vid­ual or plane lost in the heart of  a desert,  jun­gle, icy caps or ocean with its loca­tion sig­nal box sound­ing off on Earth where pushed to find them! Using a least 4 search vehi­cles and a lot of man power.

And so hav­ing one small Mars robot vehi­cle like a human being look­ing for his lost car in the car park the size of the Sahara desert and mov­ing around at snail’s pace my ques­tion is don’t you think it be more prac­ti­cal if Nasa asked con­gress to increase its bud­get to pro­vide more robot search vehi­cles to at least 2 times the amount on Mars?.

Also is it pos­si­ble to have a Mars robot vehicle’s search­ing under­ground in Mar­t­ian vol­canic lava tubes? where liq­uid water may be found in vast quan­ti­ties or even find ancient  organ­ic life forms sur­viv­ing?.
 
I like the idea of humans liv­ing in con­vert­ed sealed off lava tubes since it pro­vide nat­ur­al pro­tec­tion from radi­a­tion, pro­vide nat­ur­al shel­ters, keep breath­able air in and live­able insu­lat­ed tem­per­a­tures and since lava tubes can go on for miles and miles (which might even go down to the core of the plan­et) they would pro­vide inter­est­ing under­ground explo­rations for robots and humans alike (Even the pos­si­bil­i­ties of dis­cov­er­ing an aban­doned ancient alien under­ground city bil­lion’s of year’s old like in the Sci-Fi movie’s “For­bid­den Plan­et” or “Total Recall”  which would be bit  bet­ter than an astro­naut  geol­o­gist crack­ing open a rock and find­ing an old fos­sil bone impression.)

Ques­tion: William?
Going out to Mars to find out about human liv­ing on Mars (per­ma­nent stay) and using Mars as a deep space ter­mi­nal? etc. is the pro­gres­sion ques­tion most peo­ple would like to hear. After all mod­ern day Amer­i­ca was found­ed on peo­ple with one way tick­ets and through­out the world Amer­i­ca was the place to go.

Also the com­mer­cial sec­tor space rock­ets with car­go sup­plies can do unmanned fre­quent 1 to 2 year orbit sup­plies to Mars from Earth and drop off its com­mer­cial car­go in the Mar­t­ian atmos­phere as well as installing inter­na­tion­al satel­lites along the way to Mars for bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tions and future com­merce to Mars and Earth.

With­out excep­tion, no group has done more to ele­vate man than NASA.  Peri­od.  G‑d Bless.

You could spend the same amount on build­ing a dome city and call it mars then study liv­ing in that environment.100 per­cent organ­ic and the pub­lic might go for it.I would love to vol­un­teer to live there.I would need to bring my cat.

Cxee

s gu to nz

our goal has been the same since day one Return to the Moon, Cap­ture an Aster­oid, and one day Set Foot on Mars. 

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Aster­oid Redi­rect Mis­sion sounds very inter­est­ing. Question?

See­ing that a small tug boat can tow a very large 6,000 pas­sen­ger ocean lin­er or cruis­er (the size of a small town) into a dock­ing area and because there is no resis­tance in space, so mov­ing very large object should be easier?

There­fore would it be pos­si­ble to redi­rect an aster­oid a mile in size or so, to obit around the Earth like the inter­na­tion­al space sta­tion and install or seal off cav­i­ties on its rock sur­face for human habi­ta­tion, for aster­oid research, for future space craft builds and cost effec­tive space craft launch­es as well as for inter­na­tion­al and com­mer­cial sec­tor space tourism and com­merce etc?

 And with today’s tech­nol­o­gy install a pipeline from the aster­oid to suck up oxy­gen and water from Earth’s near atmos­phere for life sup­port stud­ies in space etc..

bull­shit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then peo­ple go to Mars and will spend bil­lions to inves­ti­gate a dead desert right?

We should-would-and-could expect NASA to be ready by time it’s ready to land on Mars but it can’t be: NASA needs: A. a bud­get 3× larg­er; B. a new kind of pro­tec­tion from orbit debris because, B1. one areo-log­i­cal­ly-recent Mars impactor was a 100 km graz­ing moonoid eject­ing peta­tonnes of rub­ble to orbit, B2. Mars grav­i­ty is low­er ergo Whip­ple shields are less use­ful; C. Mars sur­face is old sto­ry, the era before Earth­’s gods, lit­tered with corpses, garbage, assas­sins knives, bal­loon­ships, no longer func­tion­al except that knife… the world is busier out­side Earth­’s grav­i­ta­tion­al playpen.

We aren’t gonna col­o­nize the solar sys­tem with chem­i­cal rock­ets. That will require nuclear pow­ered space­craft. Until nasa puts the plans for such space­craft on the table any talk of human mis­sions to Mars and beyond is just talk.

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