Why An Interplanetary Fuel Stop Makes Sense For Human Missions To Mars

What would it take, and how might we use the resources beyond Earth’s atmosphere? There is now evidence that indicates the presence of liquid water in the Garni Crater. Over time these dark streaks mysteriously change.

Several organizations have already stated they are going to Mars as soon as possible, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk has been clear on one reason why he thinks it is so important for humans to go to Mars. NASA scientists tested four different locations and found that the RSLs were made up of hydrated salts, a mix of chlorates and perchlorates.

On these slopes is salt, which is why the water can flow.

Scientists all over the world are still celebrating the discovery of water on our favourite red planet.

“It’s a big leap to say that there is life there”.

“I don’t know son, now stop lollygagging and help me sandbag our house against these insanely bad sea level rises that we could’ve prevented years ago if we hadn’t kept electing politicians who believe wind farms cause dropsy”.

Chinese experts are discussing the feasibility of sending a landing probe and retrieve samples from an asteroid.

To protect other worlds from earthly contamination, an organisation called the committee on space research (Cospar) draws up the rules to prevent missions from Earth contaminating untouched environments of other worlds. By doing so, they could reduce the mass of the spacecraft by as much as 68 percent, based on the study authors’ calculations. In order to investigate this phenomena further, NASA will have to invent a solution. It could be a robotic mission or a manned mission.

The latest harebrained scheme in our long mission to piss off the vast and uncaring cosmos comes as the Mars Colonial Transporter project, which aims to put bums on seats on Mars as early as the mid-2020s. “So the robots that go up there themselves are not completely sterilized, but they have the capability of building things that are completely sterilized”, Lombardi said.

Now, consider this scenario: a nuclear war or other disaster hits the Earth and human civilization is destroyed. But our view of the galaxy could become a little clearer in 2018 with the launch of the $9 billion James Webb Space Telescope.

Finding life in our own solar system would be a huge milestone in the field of astronomy, and for humanity itself. As one scientist explained, “Our quest on Mars has been to follow the water in our search for life in the universe”.

“Mummy, why did we expend our finite resources on letting Silicon Valley megalomaniacs live out their intergalactic fever dreams while millions of people lived and died in abject destitution?”

The Chinese are engaged in a debate, as had been the case in the United States, over whether to send humans beyond low Earth orbit or just robots.

In the past, space exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry-along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times – as on the Apollo missions to the moon – and a “resupply strategy”, in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the worldwide Space Station.

Move to Mars? I don’t think so.