The newest project between NASA and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is creating a sensation. The idea is to create a space craft that can haul enough crew and cargo to Mars. The project, dubbed the Hundred Year Starship, differs a bit from the moon missions. Astronauts on this mission won’t return to Earth.
DARPA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration to colonize Mars
Pete Worden, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, brought news at the Long Conversation Conference in San Francisco. He said that National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are working together on a project. The two govt agencies have asked for help on the project called the 100 Year Starship, the Telegraph accounts. Getting donations is something the corporations are focusing on when talking to the world's billionaires. Larry Page, Google co-founder, is 1 of the individuals being asked. Next year would be when the initial design is available. The DARPA Challenge, which had been an endurance race for self-driving automobiles, had been much more concrete than this project. The intent of the project is to build an amazing spacecraft. The point would be that it could get cargo and astronauts to Mars safely. However, in contrast to Apollo 11 or the International Space Station mission! s, these astronauts are not coming back.
Only one way tickets accessible
The distances between Earth and other planets doesn’t lend itself easily to a ferry service. Journeying to Mars takes months. Nine months are needed for it. Those who end up there can have to learn to be self sufficient. Only $1 million is within the budget for the project. That's bad because it will probably cost around $10 billion, claims NASA . According to Fox News, there’s a lot of fuel to move equipment into space. Four pounds of fuel per 1 pound of equipment is needed. Getting to Mars within the first place is difficult enough, and a return journey that much closer to extremely hard.
Colonization and the last frontier
Mars is the next good undertaking in space exploration, and colonizing other planets is possibly next on the list. The mission would be ferrying astronauts to Mars to establish a permanent colony. The Mars lifestyle is what they’ll figure out. There has to be some way to do it. Our planet is going to die one day. Mankind, if it’s to survive, must discover a way to live somewhere else.
Articles cited
The Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8091965/Nasa-unveils-bold-plans-to-send-humans-one-way-to-Mars-to-colonise-planet.html
Fox News
foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/29/nasa-cover-up-hundred-year-starship/print
No comments:
Post a Comment