2006-09-04 02:24:46 · 12 answers · asked by Martin Lockheed 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Interesting question considering we may have technology that is so secretive that only a small handful knows about. Going to Mars and back may be sooner than ever realized. I wouldn't be very excited about going all that way just to be the first to land and die there though. So I agree with the statement of using robots but to first establish a survivable base camp. I think we need to create a more accommodating super size space station first though. Space exploration should be more about the the space travel than the destination since it can take so long to get there. Are we there yet?
2006-09-04 05:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would have to build a staging platform in earth orbit, build a movable station and send that. Once it reached mars, it would take up orbit and act as a platform from which a base could be built, possibly by landing pre-fab modules.
Once enough of a base is built an effort would then have to be made to use available resources since resupply would take a very long time. Probably the first re-supplies would have to be sent long before the original travelers even arrived.
Possible but very expensive and time consuming.
2006-09-04 12:06:30 · answer #2 · answered by icetender 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
within 50 years, i believe that yes, we will have made some attempt at a mars landing. however, today's technology would have to rapidly change. we either need a way to put a person into a sort of hibernating state, or we need a MUCH faster way to get there. right now the only thing stopping us from doing it is the fact that you would need to bring many years worth of supplies to keep the human alive, which makes the entire things heavier, and this you need more rocket fuel, and its more expensive... it just goes on. gotta solve this 1 problem
2006-09-04 02:32:05 · answer #3 · answered by supremelorderik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh, we could land on mars in 5 years if there was enough funding and we got our act in gear....
It's mostly political bullshit preventing it and delaying it until 2030. The technology is already here...but it's expensive.
As I recall the russians said they could put a man on mars in 2 years if they wanted to. It's really not that hard. More difficult than the moon mission but really, it's already been almost 40 years.
It's mostly the length of the mission that is a problem, I think, but hey, those russians have plenty of experience sitting up in space for a long time XD
Russia and China are already sending a shuttle and stuff to explore mars and one of it's moons. Wouldn't surprise me if they put a man on mars first if the US keeps up their slowness.
2006-09-04 04:12:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we could very easily but whoever is making the decisions on space exploration in my opinion is looking in the wrong direction! If it were up to me, I would have made the International Space Station a two fold project! It would have been exactly as Isaac Asimov's idea of building an Oneil ring! Build the station to not only experiment in space, but to be used as a transport to take a crew to mars and observe it from orbit and send shuttles to and from the planet rather than to try to build a habitiat on mars right away!
2006-09-04 02:36:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been There Done That,No Man Himself Will Never Personally Go To The Red Planet,Very Volatile Environment,Robots Will Do Anything We Need To Do There
2006-09-04 02:32:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We could land on Mars today with the technology we have. We have already done it. We just haven't sent people along for the ride yet.
2006-09-04 05:47:51 · answer #7 · answered by dam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not with todays technology. But we couldn't have landed on the moon with technology from the 1920's, either.
In 50 years, who knows what kind(s) of technologies we may have to work with?
Doug
2006-09-04 02:28:54 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-06 09:09:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doug, the first answerer, said it well.
Hopefully, in fifty years our technology would have taken a tremendous turn to allow mankind to do many other things, too!
2006-09-04 02:31:56 · answer #10 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋