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Space powers propose roadmap for flight to Mars
Published: 05 January, 2012, 16:18
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Despite various economic issues undermining efforts by the world’s leading space powers to forge a program for future manned flights to the Red Planet, an international working group has come up with a universal space exploration roadmap.
The effort by the partner nations in the International Space Station project, namely Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency, was also supported by China, India, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries.
"This is not merely an ISS club, but a broader project," the chief of human spaceflights programs of Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos, Aleksey Krasnov, added.
The proposed roadmap may be based on three alternative routes: preparation of a manned expedition to Mars from scratch, the testing of technologies on the Moon prior to a flight to Mars, or a flight to an asteroid followed by a journey to Mars.
"Which of them will be chosen has yet to be decided," Aleksey Krasnov explained, adding that any of the options would suit Roscosmos.
"Our position is that the Moon could be an intermediate point for testing new know-how and new approaches to human spaceflights, and only afterwards could a step be made towards Mars, which is our goal," he said.
"Talks have been uneasy thus far. You can see what is going on in the world economy,” Krasnov told Interfax-AVN. “Such programs require government-approved funding, which is the most difficult goal for all of us. It is very difficult to give the go-ahead to billions in funding required to accomplish flights beyond low orbits amid such serious economic instability. We have not forged a final decision yet."
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they can't make a manned flight to mars because they never reached the moon. why do you think they never made it to the moon since last century? the answer is simple: because it is impossible. there is a van allen radiation belt litlle further from earth which humans can't cross because the radiation would be too great over there. you would see shooting stars with your eyes closed! the aircraft would have to be very thick to pass through this belt that is why only unmanned vehicles can be sent. watch the movie moon landing hoax and it will show you that gagarin never made it to space!
Why go to Mars before making trip to Moon a more perfunctory action? Besides, Moon is much closer and making a permanent base there would help to improve space technologies needed for a very complicated Mars mission (later in the future).
I believe that any of the leading space nations (China, Japan, Russia) could get to the Moon in a relatively short term, say 2 years, if they would really decide to do that. I think US wouldn't be able to get to the Moon that quickly (say, 3-5 years) due to NASA has already become an ineffective, money-eating organization (some private US contractors could do that more efficiently).
Something is bothering me. They say that Mars has no magnetic field and we know that a planet must be protected by a magnetic field against the CME (Corona Mass Ejection.)
If Mars has no magnetic field, what will protect a living organism on its surface when the Sun will get angry? Another thing, if Mars has no magnetic field, it's either its cores are non metallic or if they are, they're simply not rotating and if they're not rotating, they don't supply any output and the planet surface is left unprotected against the CME.
I think that the first thing mankind must think about primarily is how to protect any future colony against asteroid fallout and CME, unless all of our settlements will be undergrounded. Who knows! Maybe in the future we will find a way to restart the planet cores (if they are static) and restore the Magnetic field, then, we will be able to reengineer the Atmosphere and make the planet's surface suitable for human settlement.
For the time now, I don't see the usefulness of going on Mars, if not for the prestige. Why not go to the moon and use it as a training platform for more deeper space exploration. In fact, the Moon has everything we need for our planetery exploration training. It is a planet and as such is supposed to be rich in resources. Why risking a long trip to practically deep space without a permanent settlement on the moon. If something goes wrong at least a rescue mission will have a four hundred thousand kms head start and much weaker gravity to deak with on its way out. Unless, as they say, we never made it to the moon and we still don't know how to deal with the Van Hallen belt.
power plant is dead.