Numbers Wrote:
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> > Is this realistic? Obama thinks so....
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> Yesterday I heard on the news that China, Russia
> and the european space agency are all planning
> missions to mars. However, the cost of such a
> mission would most likely require multinational
> involvement.
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> It's definitely doable, we've already sent
> unmanned vehicles there and there is an experiment
> going on right now where 4-5 astronauts are
> planned to be in a space capsule for 500 days to
> access the effects.
Of all the challenges associated with going to Mars, the most perplexing is how to create a vessel that can reach escape velocity from Mars with a skeleton crew of astronauts to do it and without the support a similar launch would have on Earth (a Mars mission wouldn't even have the luxury of real-time communication with NASA).
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