2007-01-09 00:40:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I was thinking of humans landing on Mars,not robots...
2007-01-09 00:56:12 · update #1
It will be many decades before people land on Mars. The difficulties of radiation, weightlessness and equipment reliability are not so much of a problem for a 1 week trip to the Moon, but for a 2 year space flight to Mars they are far beyond our current capability. Of course many unmanned space craft have already landed there.
2007-01-09 00:46:53 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're talking about humans landing on Mars I suppose. Within 25 years for sure. Likely within 20. Perhaps even sooner.
As for human creations there has been several on Mars already. Didn't you see those two robots that drove around on Mars for several months. There were also some similar project from Europe that failed, anyway there has been several things landing on Mars from us over here already.
We're gonna be back on the moon even sooner, then Mars, then more and more space travel with space tourism growing as the solutions for leaving earth get's less and less expensive.
Personally I'm looking at the space elevator project as an important step in the development. That sure could take down the cost for shuttling stuff out into orbit a whole lot.
Our future is in space and on other planets no doubt. We can't stick around on this place forever and more and more people know about it nowadays.
2007-01-09 08:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by Hansinchina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some serious technical problem that have to be solved first before a manned landing on Mars could even be attempted. One of them is dealing with the effects of some rare "exotic" forms of radiation that human beings have never been exposed to, so we have no idea what the effects are. An experiment involving some kind of tissue bank sent to Mars and back would probably have to conducted to see exactly what the effects are. The amount of shielding necessary would have to be calculated, and the type of shielding might have to be created, and that is just one of the problems that needs to be solved. I hope I see it in my lifetime, but "who knows".
2007-01-09 08:54:56 · answer #3 · answered by Paul H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not in the next 20 years
2007-01-09 08:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by Chaoslord 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋