you know real star trek stuff ! i'm sure if they all got together they could do it. It may even be more cost effective than laumching multiple shuttles to the moon or the space station. We may even discover other life forms !
2006-09-07 08:18:53 · 12 answers · asked by The all seeing all knowing one 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Man will never be able to do a deep space mission because of radiation. All exploration will be done from robot missions.
2006-09-07 08:21:21 · answer #1 · answered by god knows and sees else Yahoo 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No Deep Space missions, but there have been joint probes sent to planets in the solar system. For example, the Cassini-Hygens probe to Saturn was a joint enterpise between NASA and ESA. The world is participating in the ISS, next would be the moon, as I don't think America could finance that one alone, then after that Mars. But manned spaceflight beyond the solar system, no, not with todays technology. The most powerful rocket today would take maybe a couple of decades just to get out of the solar system.
2006-09-08 10:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by colin.christie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the technology we have today, we are stuck in the inner solar system. That means Mars, the moon, and just maybe the "cool side" of Mercury. Venus is too hostile environmentally. Even the few unmanned craft the Russians sent there failed quickly.
We won't be able to explore the outer solar system effectively until Prometheus is available.
A mission outside the solar system? Not possible with any known technology. If you tried to vist the Centauri system (nearest star system) in less than 900 years using chemical rockets, you would have to expend the entire mass of the universe as propellant.
Before we can leave the solar system, we need some sort of new discovery or understanding of physics either to travel faster than light, or to "bypass" physical space to get there.
2006-09-07 15:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by Otis F 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When did we get warp drive I missed that annoucement? With out something like that we have got a chance of deep space interstella exploration. Come on it takes them five years or so just to reach Jupiter never mind deep space. Voyager probes travelling at speeds of 39,000 miles per hour and traveling for nearly 30 yrs havent even left the solar system so deep space exploration hmmm naaa not yet.....
2006-09-10 18:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by wandera1970 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And as well as not being able to get us to the moon they cant even send a probe to mars without crashing it at 2kilometres a second into the surface
2006-09-07 15:25:39 · answer #5 · answered by Ruairi McNeany 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don't have the technology to get to another star yet and probably won't in your lifetime. Sorry dude it aint gonna happen.
2006-09-07 15:21:56 · answer #6 · answered by Scott L 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We need time travel then we can find Captain Jean-Luc Picard, he'll tell us how to do it.
2006-09-07 16:08:32 · answer #7 · answered by timone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when pigs fly backwards and catapillars are as big as elep[hants there 2 hooked on competition 2 realize the obvious
2006-09-07 15:27:49 · answer #8 · answered by Michael a 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When they manage the moon first dude !!
2006-09-07 15:22:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol, NEVER...
nasa can't even get us to mars, atually they can't even get us to the moon and back without crashing!
2006-09-07 15:22:14 · answer #10 · answered by the one and only! 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋