When will we travel through space, how come it's not here yet, i want the truth not a lie?

Answer 1

We've been launching crap into space since Sputnik was lanuched in 1957. That's 49 years. Don't believe me? Go out on a dark night and look for satalites moving against the stars (yes you can see them).

Answer 2

Your statement that you "want the truth not a lie" is very bothersome, because it suggests you are prejudiced in such a way that any answer you don't like must be a lie. This will get you nowhere but into trouble. So it seems like time for you to mature in your thinking, and start learning to reason out what is the truth based on the quality of your information sources.

One of the purposes of education is to familiarize you with various kinds of information sources and to teach you how to discern the quality of each. That is why I will assure you that the beginning of knowing the truth is to get a good education. You will eventually grow to love it.

Now, for some truth about space travel. "Outer Space" is defined as all of that which is more than 60 miles above the surface of the earth. The first man-made object that ever entered outer space was a WAC Corporal rocket launched as a second stage from a V2 ballistic missile. This launching occurred in 1952 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The next goal was to place a man-made object in orbit around the earth. This was done by the Soviet Union in 1957, much to the consternation of many Americans. Just a few weeks later, a small and in some ways less sophisticated satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral using a standard ballistic missile as a launch vehicle.

It went on from there until great numbers of satellites had been launched by various countries. Most are communications or military satellites. In 1969 the first landings on the Moon occurred, and over the next several years there were 5 more moon landings.

It seems likely there will be a manned mission to Mars sometime in the next few years, and there may be some more manned missions to the moon. In addition, there is a manned space station in orbit, where people live all the time.

Finally, if you are talking about "The Final Frontier" and Star Trek style exploration and adventure among the stars, it is not likely ever to happen. The stars are too far away and the possible speeds too slow to make it feasible. Only the remote possibility of a massive breakthrough in human knowledge and technology would make that possible.

Now, all of that is the absolute truth. You can look it all up for yourself. Please don't insult people who know the truth by questioning whether we might be lying because you don't like the answers. Look it up in reliable sources.

Answer 3

We are already traveling through space.
We have sent men to the Moon.
We have an orbiting Space Station.

Travel to the next destination - possibly MARS will take
a much longer time to go there - land - and return.
Such a long trip takes a massive amount of
fuel plus air plus
and consumeable life support supplies
that it will be a major undertaking if and when
it ever gets apporved for planning and execution.

Your question simply does not stipulate what
you call "space", so I have a hard time providing a
direct answer. To me, "space" is anywhere outside
the Earth's atmosphere, and you must deal with
"re-entry" when you return.

The planning and provisioning for such missions is
so massive that I would not plan on any of our immediate friends going out there any time soon.

Answer 4

We will travel through space when we stop spending all our money on wars. Blunt enough for you?
The question of how we do it is a different question all together. It is true that we cannot travel at the speed of light and may never but if we can approach the speed of light we can reduce the effects of time on us (the travelers). The effects of time seem to reduce exponentially as we get closer. In other words traveling at half the speed of light does not slow time for the traveler by 1/2. If we get to about 99.9999999% of the speed of light time can be slowed to almost nil. That could allow us to travel the millions of years necessary without aging too much. I don't know the exact math but it would still require a huge amount of energy.

Answer 5

The absolute truth- there is no gravity in space eccept on the moon and earth, so we can't acctually travel through space because nobody would live through it. Only because the gravity of earth plays a part in our blood flow, because it pulls the blood down through our veins, so if there is no gravity our hearts would be forcing the blood through the veins rather that gravity aiding it in its fall down the limbs to the brain. Also, space is to large to " travel " in. We can use satelites to find things such as planets and galaxies, but to travel space has to much risk that there is better odds of you getting struck by lightning 15 times and winning the jackpot on the lotto 85 times in 30 days. . . than there are in surviving a travel through space.... with the technology we have today.

Answer 6

Grimm is right about speed being the problem but wrong about how long it takes to get to the Moon (four days when you count deceleration). Even so, the most wildly optimistic estimates of advanced propulsion systems still put us at a fraction of the speed of light (a speed by the way that cannot be obtained, according to Einsteinian physics).

That means not only for our lifetime, but for generations to come, we are confined to our own dinky solar system.

I love "Star Trek" as much as anyone else, but traveling through the galaxy like that is pure fantasy.

Answer 7

Politics. Politics got us to the moon. Politics cut the moon program short. Politics undermined the design of the space shuttle minimizing it's usefulness. Politics started the international space station and politics caused the design to be scaled back. We have the scientific talent to get us much further into space than we are. We need the national will and a long term commitment by congress to move forward.

Answer 8

Money....there's a portion of the world that thinks space travel is a waste of time...but infact many things have been discovered because of space travel.....I also believe if more money was given......more people would be employed in well payed jobs and get bettter education.

Answer 9

If we didnt have a dark age that lasted over 800 years where science was heresy, we would have mastered space travel by now.

Answer 10

the biggest problem we have with space travel is propulsion... it just takes too damn long to get anywhere... it takes what? like 2 or 3 weeks just to get to the moon? and it's alot closer than anything else out there