What advances do u see taking place with solar system exploration in the next ten years?

Question

What advances do u see taking place with solar system exploration in the next ten years?

Answer 1

I think the joint venture Project Virgle was going to colonize mars within 10 years. I don't think NASA is going to do much in 10 years because the gov't keeps pulling NASA funds to put more money into welfare programs.  

Answer 2

Play it, Paul!

"Robots!

"Lots of Robots!

"I see scads and scads of

"Robots!"

/applause

Answer 3

Well somewhere between 2014 and 2016 a man will be sent to mars for a few years. And There might be a colony on the moon maybe. And more probes will be sent out. But on 2012 the earth, and the sun will line up directly with the center of the milky way galaxy and that will cause the poles on earth to shift pushing earth into chaos such as earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanoe eruptions and all of that stuff.

Answer 4

A number of probes will be sent out by J.A.X.A. & C.N.S.A. to both the Moon and Mars, but nothing like going to Mars or the Moon with manned missions, i'm sure that N.A.S.A. will do something to keep people interested so their budget doesn't get cut back more than it already has been.

Answer 5

I think there will be only negligible advance within the next 10 years, however within 100 years I predict manned flights to Mars.

Answer 6

Sadly not much. It takes time to plan and launch space missions. A lot of money has been tied up in Mars, which doesn't leave a lot for the other planets. New Horizons will make it to Pluto (which isn't a planet) in 2017. There are no plans currently in the works to re-explore the outer planets. NASA's focus will be returning to the Moon. In 10 years the Hubble Space Telescope will be no more. It will be replaced with the James Webb Telescope, but it only sees in the infrared. The White Elephant on the room will be what to do with/about the International Space Station. It costs a lot on money to maintain, and in 10 years it will have outlived it's planed usefulness.

I am a big time space enthusiast, but I am not optimistic about where things are going. We need to find an inexpensive and reliable means of getting into space (like a space elevator). A space infrastructure and industry needs to be developed. Power satellites to help solve the world's energy problems. Mining the asteroids. An aggressive robotics program involved in exploration. These are the things we to revolutionize space.

Currently the U.S., nor anyone else, has a real space policy. That's not to say there won't be some great science done in the next 10 years. What we need to focus on is an inexpensive and reliable means of accessing space. Currently it cost about $10,000 per pound to place something in low Earth orbit. That has to change.

In 2020 we are going to go back to the Moon, collect some more rocks and say, 'Now what?' just like we did in 1969.