Is there a timeline to go to Mars?
2006-08-31 14:23:23 · 19 answers · asked by kurtness 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In the 22nd or 23rd Century.
Right now it takes close to 2,000 pounds per person to make a 10 month round trip to stay there for 2 - 3 weeks.
The weight limitations on that kind of expendables is just to costly, unless Congress wants to allocate a trillion dollars for one space flight.
Right now we can't go much faster than 35,000 MPH and a pebble would devistate a ship if it hit it and Mars in near the Asteroid field.
We have to get closer to 500,000 miles per hour and figure a way to cut the costs down from $20,000 a pound to lift mass off the ground.
It might also help if we could learn how to make O2 and H20 mechanically or electronically.
Here are the facts. A human consumes 1 pound of water, 2 pounds of food and several pounds of air per day.
At 35,000 MPH it takes about 10 months to do a round trip to Mars, which has a mean distance of 45 millioin miles in each direction.
Do the math. It takes close to a ton of air, food, water and person. You send up 5 people that's 5 tons, plus ship. The ship won't be very big.
Do you think you could live in your bedroom with 5 people for 10 months without ever going out the door, except to go into a 2 square foot rest room.
That's what a trip to Mars is in most of this century.
2006-08-31 17:01:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
Estimates put man on mars at about 2030 though.
However, this is mostly political bullshit, of course.
We could go to mars in like 2 years if we wanted to XD There are some biological hazards, but really, most of the problems have already been delt with.
They're building a new rocket for the mars mission which should be finished in a few years.
2006-08-31 14:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We could go today if we wanted to all we have to do is build the ship..NASA already has a design for a space ship that could reach Mars Pretty quick ( about 6 months or so when earth and mars orbits pass each other) the ship even has gravity, this is acheved by spining the ship to have the feel of gravity.
but to answer your question id say 2020 to 2030
2006-09-06 09:36:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
NASA, made an $8 billion commitment to the exploration of space...they chose aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. today to develop a craft to take humans to the moon. The Orion ships will replace the current shuttles. The sooner we get to Mars, the better.
Can you imagine finding a planet destroying asteroid ready to hit earth in less than 10 years? That would be too late to deflect its course, but time to get the selected progeny of the human race into ships bound for Mars. Flights of fantasy and science fiction? Perhaps, but i would be the first one to sign up for such a mission.
2006-08-31 19:46:47 · answer #4 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Talk about being Centric?
This is an international site. All of the answers seem to apply to we in the USA.
We don't have the balls anymore to do anything except be the worlds policeman.
Everyone else is developing new technologies and have dreams of the future..
What do we do? We have dreams of 'Armageddon, Christians who don't want to do anything that may slow it down, Neocons who want to make sure that we have AMERICA's fair share of the worlds energy supply, NIMBY's who don't want wind generators offshore from their important land, green fanatics that don't want to pursue clean reliant nuclear power (talk about a loss of research), people who don't want to research disease because they equate 16 cells to a human (sorry) potential human. My sperm and my wife's eggs are living and 'Potential Humans', a Pope who is about to set us all back a thousand years by overturning a prior pope's declaration from the seat of St. Peter, that Intelligent Design is acceptable? Some educational systems trying to foster the belief and thought that the world and all of creation is 4-5000 years old? We are on our way DOWN.
The USA as I and many believed it would be has been taken over by quacks and nonothings and we will all just wave 'bye'bye' as the rest of humankind advances.
Sorry. It will be by the year 2018 and we in the US will be lucky if we are a small participant. I get pissed off when I think of this.
2006-09-07 07:52:53 · answer #5 · answered by DanielofD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The planned mission was on Atlantis, America. They were planning to go back to the Moon first then go to Mars, but due to the weather conditions they postponed the trip.
2006-09-08 14:30:20 · answer #6 · answered by lonelyanswers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NASA hopes to get to the Moon at the latest by 2014... They will use the Moon as a study ground for surviving long periods of time in low-gravity/airless environments.
The absolute latest they wish to get to Mars is 2040.
2006-08-31 15:36:51 · answer #7 · answered by AresIV 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This might sound weird, but I don't think we will ever succeed in sending people to Mars. I think world war 3, Armageddon, and the return of Jesus will come first.
2006-08-31 14:31:49 · answer #8 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Soon after the green men from Mars pay us a visit.
2006-08-31 14:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by The Guru 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NASA is working on a time line to go to Mars, however there is still no schedule as of today.
2006-08-31 17:39:01 · answer #10 · answered by bprice215 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋