A new project was announced involving DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and NASA. A spacecraft is to be designed that will take not only enough cargo, but also crew, to Mars. The project is being called the 100 Year Starship. Nevertheless, there is a significant difference between this project and the Apollo missions. The difference between the Apollo program and this program is this can be a 1 way admission; these astronauts are not meant to come back. Resource for this article – NASA and DARPA join for Hundred Year Starship project by Personal Money Store.
Visiting the DARPA and NASA on Mars
Pete Worden, from the NASA Ames Research Center, brought news at the Long Conversation Conference in San Francisco. He said that NASA and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are working together on a project. The project, based on The Telegraph, is so far called the Hundred Year Starship program, and the 2 govt agencies are looking to enlist help. Getting donations is something the companies are focusing on when talking to the world's billionaires. Larry Page, Google co-founder, is 1 of the people being asked. A first design could be accessible next year. The DARPA Challenge, which had been an endurance race for self-driving cars, was much more concrete than this project. The intent of the project is to build an amazing spacecraft. The point would be that it could get cargo and astronauts to Mars safely. This project is different than the international Space Station and Apollo 11. The astronauts won’t be coming back from Mars.
Going one way only
There’s a huge distance between Earth and other planets. This makes it hard to just create a ferry between planets. Journeying to Mars takes months. Nine months are needed for it. Those who end up there could have to learn to be self sufficient. Only $1 million is in the budget for the project. That's bad because it will probably cost around $10 billion, claims NASA . According to Fox News, there’s a lot of fuel to move equipment into space. Four pounds of fuel per 1 pound of equipment is needed. It will be almost impossible for making a return journey since getting to Mars is already a difficult one.
Mars being colonized then
Mars is the next good undertaking in space exploration, and colonizing other planets is possibly next on the list. The plan would involve getting astronauts to live on Mars. This would lead them to be there permanently. The Mars lifestyle is what they will figure out. There has to be some way to do it. This planet, eventually, will die. There has to be one more place Mankind will live if the planet dies.
Info from
The Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8091965/Nasa-unveils-bold-plans-to-send-humans-one-way-to-Mars-to-colonise-planet.html
Fox News
foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/29/nasa-cover-up-hundred-year-starship/print
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