· When will humans travel to Mars and revisit the Moon?

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· When will humans travel to Mars and revisit the Moon?

Answer 1

A firm timetable for human missions to Mars doesn't exist yet. However, in 2004, President Bush outlined a vision to establish a lunar outpost by 2020 as a preliminary step for exploration beyond Earth, including Mars. Preliminary plans for lunar outpost missions are to be finalized by 2012. Precursor missions that would help develop the needed technology during the 2010-2020 decade were tentatively outlined by Adringa and others. On Sep 24 2007, Michael Griffin, the NASA administrator, hinted that NASA may be able to launch a human mission to Mars by 2037. The current plan is to withdraw $11 billion from space science missions to fund the vision for human exploration.

The European Space Agency is also planning human missions to Mars under its Aurora program. Russia has been collaborating with the ESA in this effort, the most recent being an investigation of the psychological and physical effects of prolonged isolation from Earth. A human mission to Mars is expected to take about eight months each way.

There are several key challenges that a human mission to Mars must overcome: (1) Physical effects of exposure to high energy photons, and energetic subatomic particles (2) Physical effects of a prolonged low-gravity environment (3) psychological effects of isolation from Earth (4) social effects of several humans living under crowded conditions for over one earth year (5) inaccessibility of terrestrial medical facilities. Some of these issues were estimated statistically in the HUMEX study. Ehlmann and others have reviewed political and economic concerns, as well as technological and biological feasibility aspects.

While fuel for roundtrip travel could be a challenge, mature technology exists to utilize Martian H2O (preferably as water ice instead of chemically bound water) and atmospheric CO2 to generate methane and oxygen

Answer 2

I'm going to guess live on mars=2100 maybe and then travle to the moon lower on the scale at 2070. LoL how dose that sound?

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Answer 3

The next time we get a progressive president who is actually a leader, rather than a conservative one, or a liberal who calls himself a progressive.

Answer 4

Yes.

Answer 5

I'd start the countdown tomorrow if I had my way.  It just makes sense to establish a base on the moon that would support astronomy/ selenology  research, physiology research, and would be a jumping off place for mars.

Answer 6

NASA's astronaut walked on the  in July 1969. Means that time we has the technologies to sent spacecraft to moon, but why we don't have the same technology of late 1960 on 2 day. As per leading space agency,it will take atleast 6-10 years to revisit the moon. an for mars i think may be 15 year more.

Answer 7

  The moon was one small step going back likely won't happen again.

  Mars will be next in maybe 15 to 20 years from now nd man will not likely visit any other planet but maybe a comet.

Answer 8

The USA wants to go to the moon and so does China around 2010-2020.

The moon has now become a profitable place because of the discovery of Helium 3 locked up in the rocks. Helium 3 is used in nuclear energy production and many scientists feel this will answer earth's human  uses of tremendous amounts of energy. It is very expensive to make on earth and comes from a time when the universe was young. A gram on Earth is very, very valuable. If gold were found on the moon, you could not go up and bring it back and make any money because of the cost of travel. However Helium 3 is way more valuable and the Moon has a bunch of it. NASA would not even have to be the one to go as it is valuable enough for private companies to go and get it.

When the USA went to the moon, a treaty was signed that no country could own the Moon. However many feel that is about to change with this discovery. It will be processed on the Moon so the weight will be very little when you bring it back.

Mankind going to Mars on manned missions will accomplish very little other then to say we were there.

However unmanned missions could terraform Mars with plants that would produce Oxygen and make a better atmosphere and a warmer planet. Then as mankind populated Mars, it would insure humans and whatever animals , the chance to go on should something terrible happen to the Earth.

Answer 9

A firm timetable for human missions to Mars doesn't exist yet. However, in 2004, President Bush outlined a vision to establish a lunar outpost by 2020 as a preliminary step for exploration beyond Earth, including Mars. Preliminary plans for lunar outpost missions are to be finalized by 2012. Precursor missions that would help develop the needed technology during the 2010-2020 decade were tentatively outlined by Adringa and others. On Sep 24 2007, Michael Griffin, the NASA administrator, hinted that NASA may be able to launch a human mission to Mars by 2037. The current plan is to withdraw $11 billion from space science missions to fund the vision for human exploration.

The European Space Agency is also planning human missions to Mars under its Aurora program. Russia has been collaborating with the ESA in this effort, the most recent being an investigation of the psychological and physical effects of prolonged isolation from Earth. A human mission to Mars is expected to take about eight months each way.

There are several key challenges that a human mission to Mars must overcome: (1) Physical effects of exposure to high energy photons, and energetic subatomic particles (2) Physical effects of a prolonged low-gravity environment (3) psychological effects of isolation from Earth (4) social effects of several humans living under crowded conditions for over one earth year (5) inaccessibility of terrestrial medical facilities. Some of these issues were estimated statistically in the HUMEX study. Ehlmann and others have reviewed political and economic concerns, as well as technological and biological feasibility aspects.

While fuel for roundtrip travel could be a challenge, mature technology exists to utilize Martian H2O (preferably as water ice instead of chemically bound water) and atmospheric CO2 to generate methane and oxygen.  

Answer 10

Which is more probable?

We went to the moon with less computer power than a modern digital watch, and we're going again. Then to Mars and off to Zeta Reticuli.

or

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Answer 11

We have plans on a Mars mission in 2020.  Most likely, we will land on the Moon to set up our launch for Mars.