The new project between NASA and DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is creating a sensation. The premise is simple. Come up with a spacecraft that can lift astronauts and cargo successfully to Mars. It's called the Hundred Year Starship, but the journey would be a bit different from the moon landings. Astronauts on this mission won’t return to Earth.
Going to see DARPA and NASA on Mars
At the Long Conversation conference in San Francisco, Pete Worden of the NASA Ames Research Center announced a new project between National Aeronautics and Space Administration and DARPA. The project, according to The Telegraph, is so far called the 100 Year Starship program, and also the 2 government agencies are looking to enlist help. The world’s billionaires are being solicited for donations, including Larry Page, co-founder of Google. An original design could be accessible next year. This project is far more ambitious than the DARPA Challenge, an endurance race for self-driving automobiles. 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. The astronauts would not be coming back though, which is unlike Apollo 11 and also the International Space Station.
Going 1 way only
There is 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. Anyone who lands there can have to be self sufficient. NASA has $1 million to spend, but it’s envisioned the project would cost at least $10 billion to pull off. Based on Fox News, there’s a lot of fuel to move equipment into space. Four pounds of fuel per 1 pound of equipment is needed. Getting to Mars in the first place is difficult enough, and a return journey that much closer to extremely hard.
Mars being colonized then
Colonizing planets is what the plan is with the first space exploration plan with Mars. A permanent colony on Mars with many astronauts would be the plan. There would have to be some way to adjust to the lifestyle on Mars. Our planet may die 1 day. It is most likely going to happen. Mankind, if it is to survive, must find a way to live someplace else.
Details 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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