So You Want To Go To Mars

03/09/2024

The Gateway Lunar Station will most likely become the gateway for Mars missions! SOON!

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02/06/2024

If this elevator to space concept was practical it would be a great way to achieve low earth orbit. I don't remember hearing about the university experiment that built a carbon nanotube prototype that actually achieved orbit, though. Will have to check it out.

12/04/2024

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24/02/2024

CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) missions "will simulate year-long stays on the surface of Mars," according to NASA. See the first crew ingress the Mars habitat at NASA’s Jo...

12/01/2024

This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photographs to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human being to do a spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. In 1984, he floated completely untethered in space with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.

Read more: https://news156media.com/most-terrifying-space-photo-astronaut-floats-away-from-space-shuttle-untethered/

27/12/2023

Starlink will surely have a Mars connection at some point in Musk's development plans.

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02/12/2023

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12/11/2023

This is a rather Negative Nancy type of video, and there's no question that the settlement of Mars will require overcoming huge challenges, but it can be done. And humanity will in the end not be deterred from doing so.

Colonizing Mars has been a hot topic, especially for billionaire, Elon Musk, but the reality of colonizing Mars is more of a nightmare than a fantasy. Check ...

27/06/2023

15/03/2023

https://youtu.be/roSoBS0qo1g

14/02/2023

How will a human Mars mission play out? Where exactly should it go? What unexpected challenges will we face? We're discussing all these aspects with Rick Dav...

07/12/2022

“He has never said this, but I’ve watched it. You have 30 seconds to make your point.”What Elon Musk has been doing at Twitter since he took over the company...

15/11/2022

Water ice on Mars! Close to the equator even!

This is a two-block-wide crater gouged out by a meteor impact

See https://www.inverse.com/science/mars-announcement of 10.27.2022 for details

This animation depicts a flyover of a meteoroid impact crater on Mars that’s surrounded by boulder-size chunks of ice. The animation was created using data from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The impact occurred on Dec. 24, 2021.

The University of Arizona, in Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

This animation depicts a flyover of a meteoroid impact crater on Mars that’s surrounded by boulder-size chunks of ice. The animation was created using data f...

28/10/2022

The agency’s lander felt the ground shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the yawning new crater from space.

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11/09/2022

The search for signs of life, past or present, on Mars may have hit a stumbling blocks as new results show how the rovers will be unable to detect biomarkers on the surface.

29/08/2022

It's not that rockets haven't shared parts before, but nothing like this. Actual Space Shuttle engines are being used, not copies! Presumably the solid rocket booster O-rings are 100% reliable now, and the crew module on top is way safer than the side-mounted Shuttle was. It's all disposable, though! Apparently not even the solid rocket boosters will be recovered in the ocean like Shuttle's were. That is the reason access to space has been so expensive, imagine what your plane flights would cost if they threw away the 737 after every landing! And that's what Musk has solved with his reusable rockets, finally opening up space to economic development and colonization.

This is likely the last of its generation of disposable space launch systems, though the best too with proven technologies and even more power and payload capacity than Saturn 5 had.

They may launch a few more of these, but they mark the end of an era in space and the beginning of a new one.

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25/08/2022

Sign up for Curiosity Stream at https://curiositystream.com/marcushouseDoes NASA & SpaceX's Plan with Artemis Make Sense? The journey to Mars! Over the past ...

25/08/2022

Urine recycling is going to be important on Mars for sure.

Urine has lots of nitrogen and phosphorus—a problem as waste, great as fertilizer.

13/08/2022

The rover sure seems to be encountering a lot of trash in its quest for great science.

01/08/2022

This very ambitious project would eventually encompass not only Mars but other outer planets too.

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21/07/2022

Wouldn't this be fun to see? I wonder if this represents a montage of time exposures, because sunlight must be less bright than this image seems to suggest.

“Ice Mountains of Pluto as seen from New Horizon spacecraft.”

18/07/2022

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09/07/2022

"This means that, for example, space programs could develop VLF technology to punch holes for spacecraft to travel through."

The kicker? It’s actually saving us.

25/06/2022

Elon Musk is well-known for his innovative use of technology. Since he wasyoung, he's had an insatiable need to push the boundaries of ...

04/05/2022

Awesome!

A new space construction machine called Sargon is able to build a huge torus-shaped space station in less than six months or less?If you want to join our eff...

10/04/2022

This was a huge moment in history: the first all-civilian space mission. Commercial human space travel has arrived, thanks to Elon Musk.

Axiom Mission 1 (or Ax-1), set to lift off at 11:17 a.m. EDT (15:17 UTC) April 8, is the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Stati...

21/02/2022

https://www.4biddenknowledge.com/post/chinese-space-cleaner-spotted-grabbing-and-throwing-away-old-satellite

By: April Carson A private satellite monitoring firm recently discovered a Chinese spaceship apparently capturing and tossing away a dead satellite into what is being called a "junk area." Last month, something out of a Star Wars film occurred in Earth's orbit. The event occurred in what is being la...