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Penn, Since I work at NASA, I can tell you that there are no current plans to send any humans to mars. The logistics would boggle your mind. Any trip to Mars is a suicide mission of the highest order.
They did it by exposing the astronauts to radiation. The missions were short, which helped keep overall exposure down. Astronauts in LEO also get higher than normal doses, as do people who fly frequently. Radiation is part of the many risks of space flight.My grandfather and uncle used to believe the moon landing was fake, I always figured they were just paranoid. The last several years though it's been interesting to see how they need to develop better shielding to get past the van allen belt, but don't seem to mention how they did it to get to the moon back in the 60's in craft that were made of nothing more than tinfoil. Besides barry gave nasa it's new marching orders his 1st year in office to become ambassadors to islam. Who knows if we ever get a decent president we'll spend more money on space exploration than giving it to illegal aliens.
They did it by exposing the astronauts to radiation. The missions were short, which helped keep overall exposure down. Astronauts in LEO also get higher than normal doses, as do people who fly frequently. Radiation is part of the many risks of space flight.
Jumping to Mars before making a moon base, or giant space stations first, seems kind of illogical to me.
Exactly. We need to be building and launching from space or the moon, so they can make huge ships and travel in style.I agree. Seems also they could do long term radiation testing on their shields on a moon base. Not to mention get a lot of science done and set up a storage spot load up supplies for a mars launch. Lot easier to launch a fully loaded craft from the moon, or an empty craft from earth and rendezvous with supplies for the longer mission on the moon. Gotta be a smarter way that just sending up an Atlas rocket on steroids to get there.
One hundred people are still in the running to become humanity's first Mars explorers.
The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One, which aims to land four pioneers on the Red Planet in 2025 as the vanguard of a permanent colony, has whittled its pool of astronaut candidates down to 100, organization representatives announced Monday, Feb. 16.
More than 202,000 people applied to become Red Planet explorers after Mars One opened the selection process in April 2013. ...
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Mars One wants to send new four-person crews to the Red Planet every two years or so after the first touchdown, which would take place in 2025. At the moment, there are no plans to bring any of these Mars colonists home to Earth.
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