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Hi All
Anyone think that a person would be in their right mind to make that kind of decision of a one way ticket to Mars and the possibility of never coming home? How could a leader of a nation make that kind of decision, or would that be political suicide? But what Ive found is most people would do it no matter the dangers. I just don’t think i could image what would have to be sent ahead of the humans arriving on Mars, there would have to be allot of equipment and food and such.
What I would like to see is the USA give 1% of their or our GDP to the exploration of Mars colony, and an infrastructure for Mars Colony. Or something on that level of support to get us to a point of colonizing on Mars in the next 10 to 15 years, some time in my life time. I get so tired of hearing that it cost this much and the technology isn’t their for this type of exploration, its BS I think.
So what do you think?
Cheers
Acidrain
The Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, which oversees NASA's budget, is holding a hearing Wednesday on the Space Shuttle and future launch vehicles. The chairman of the committee, Sen. Brownback, has made some noises recently about killing the shuttle outright and shifting the funds to future launch vehicles.
Space Shuttle and the Future of Space Launch Vehicles
Science, Technology, and Space Hearing
Wednesday, May 5 2004 - 2:30 PM - SR - 253
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/wit … fm?id=1175
(Note: URL includes a link for a webcast od the presentations)
This should be interesting, perhaps the funds could be funding something more realistic and to Mars!!!
Acidrain
Yeah i realized that after i posted it, sorry all. Thank you
Acid
NATO isn't a governing organization.
Yes i realize that, but thier command structure is what is needed in the orginizational skills to bring the international community together. Which i might ad is needed and the infrastructure of what NATO is. I hope you dont expect us to model it after the UN, and thier idealogies!!!!
Acidrain
Perhaps the Government that we should have, should be based on a NATO type Unity. After all its more effective than the UN. NATO is based on the US structure of system of Government with a Military twist, that work together. Its structure is made to work with every part of other governments systems that al come under one type of Governmental system. NATO would be the Ideal structure for command and Government, so that all can work together.
Acidrain
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=406252004
Russian space experts plan manned trip to Mars
JOHN INNES
A GROUP of Russian space experts has announced an ambitious plan to send a six-man crew to Mars within a decade, a project it said would cost only £2 billion.
A researcher at the Central Research Institute for Machine-Building, Russia’s premier authority on space equipment design, said it would carry out the project with funding promised by Aerospace Systems, a little-known private Russian company that says it draws no resources from the state budget.
The programme envisages six people travelling to Mars and exploring it for several months, before returning to Earth.
The expedition is designed to last three years in all, and would depend on a fully equipped spacecraft containing its own garden, medical facilities and other amenities. However, Russian space officials have dismissed the project as unfeasible.
Georgy Uspensky, a department head at the institute, said that the comparatively small budget for the programme reflected plans to use already existing spacecraft.
Sergei Gorbunov, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency, said he had never heard of the project and that it "was absolutely impossible" to implement with such a meagre budget and in such a short time period. The researchers did not say how funds would be raised, but they claimed that one way such a mission would be profitable would be to involve a reality television show.
Meanwhile, NASA’s rover craft are to continue searching the Red Planet for evidence it once was a wetter place hospitable to life.
The five-month extension to the £450 million mission means Opportunity and Spirit could keep exploring Mars until September - nearly three times longer than originally budgeted.
Dust, cold and mechanical wear-and-tear could curtail the lifetime of either or both rovers, however, said Firouz Naderi, manager of the Mars exploration programme at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
For Opportunity, the move gives it time to build on the evidence it found that water once bathed its landing site on Mars.
Why is it a country with hardly no money for space seems to be able to do things on the cheap???? Yet NASA stil seems to spend spend spend, and make things cost so much, why? Their wasteful spending and scraping of programs, its ironic that they get anything done at all.
Acidrain
The only way I see a trip to Mars is to be a one-way trip to Mars.
1. Send all the supplies the group will need a year ahead of the Human Launch.
2. Send Habitats.
3. Build habitats for future people to come to build a type of colony.
4. Send a group of 32 of races and international partners.
5. The group needs to be made up of people of all trades.
I can’t think of anything else what do you think?Also do U think that the international community would send people to mars on a one way ticket?
By the way this is my first post, hello all!!!! Acidrain
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