According to this, in order to be on the flight to Mars, you would have to endure time in a confined tank.
Would you do this, in order to be the first to set foot on Mars?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070619/sc_afp/spacemarseurope_070619110956
2007-06-19 05:22:20 · 7 answers · asked by Searcher 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I'd go, but not with the current technology. Improve at least these two things, and I'd volunteer in a heartbeat:
Shuttles have no protection from cosmic radiation and space debris like rocks and ice, which can fly through a shuttle like a bullet, only faster.
No matter how much time you run on a treadmill in space, your body still loses muscle mass and bone density, and for a trip to Mars and back, which would be roughly just over 1 year, the strain of finally coming back to earth and being under normal gravity would keep an astronaut hospitalized fot at least a month afterward.
2007-06-19 05:36:47 · answer #1 · answered by Nunna Yorz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think technology needs to advance a little bit longer before I would even consider it. Maybe by the time my great great great grandchildren become of age they will have what it takes to get to Mars in a big space ship that was equiped to travel at the speed of light like in Star Track.
2007-06-20 03:47:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, given there are hot astronauts with me. Id love to go to Mars.
2007-06-19 13:06:24 · answer #3 · answered by drmadham 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With our present technology it would be a one way trip.
2007-06-19 12:32:31 · answer #4 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Sign me up!
2007-06-19 13:55:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I would not - of course, with my abilities, I would have nothing to add to the venture.
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2007-06-19 16:14:23 · answer #6 · answered by Kris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2007-06-19 12:25:23 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋