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Mission To Mars
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Is Life Out There?
Mars: A Journey Into:
The Unknown Territory
When I was a little girl I used to look up into The sky and stare at the stars. They were so pretty to look at. They always looked so bright and shiny. I could just sit out here for hours just gazing at the stars. My mom always told me "Make a wish upon the first star you see." I always did. I still do. I look out into the sky and I see a world of exciting possibilities. I think that there has got to be more than this here. Other life forms must exist besides ours. And it has been made quite clear to the world that NASA feels the same way. In fact, NASA feels so strongly about this that NASA is planning on sending six humans to mars and sending two more six-crewed missions to mars. They will travel for 2 1/2 months to the surface of the planet in a spaceship and land on the surface of the planet and stay on it for a period of no more than six hundred days. NASA has finally taken the next step. We truly are now discovering what science fiction writers have dreamed up for us.
When one plans something such as complicated, stressing, and the unknown it is always good to start with a list of objectives that you want the world to feel about this. You want this to create a positive impact on the world, get people excited, and recruit more young people into the world of science. This is what NASA is attempting to do. If we are to tackle the issue of getting a planet colonized even to a planet we need to attract more young people into the field to help us work on the problems that will arise in these areas. Also if we had more people working on getting us to a planet we would get so much closer to achieving our goal of colonization. Since NASA is planing on doing a human mission to Mars a few ground rules need to be drawn up to prevent the worst possible case scenario from happening. The risks must balance out in safety, mission and in technical and programmable aspects. By doing this we can then begin to identify and provide a simplistic and flexible strategy approach to the mission by emphazing the judicious use of common systems. These can help us in determining how much the human body can take to an interplanetary space environment. Once these things are determined NASA can then define a capable strategy to live off the land and find a safe and effective way to explore the planet.
In 2007 through 2014 NASA will start sending humans to explore the planet and when these astronauts are sent NASA will have already sent their supplies to the planets surface. These supplies will be sent on a total of 3 missions before the first crew lands on the planets surface. These missions will contain all that is needed to sustain a human presence on the planets surface for 18-20 months (or 600 days). Generators and modules for living will be shipped to the planets surface so that when the astronauts reach the surface they can just connect the modules together and connect it to the thermal nuclear generator. (Two nuclear generators will be shipped to the planets surface). Next all the equipment must be hooked up and running so that the astronauts can analyze data and work the equipment that is need to produce oxygen in the modules. Vehicles will also be shipped to the Martian surface so the astronauts can maneuver about the surface in greater distances to get samples of the planet to study. (Not all of the answers can be found on one part of the planet). Our planet proves that by way of the diversity of things you can find on planet such as animals and plants that can be found in only certain regions on our planet. Food and water must also be shipped to the planet. Also, oxygen needs to be shipped to the surface because we as a species cannot survive without it. The "ETO" (Earth To Orbit Launch) is determined by all of these factors. These factors allow the scientists to determine what the largest payload to the planet they can have. Because of all of these factors and the factor that six people will be living on the Martian surface the vehicle required for space travel must be from 200 tonnes to 225 tonnes. This will be powered by a nuclear thermal propulsion system. NASA is also working with the government and private companies on creating a plasma propulsion system. NASA has the technology for it but just has not come across a material that will not melt from it because of the extreme heat that it produces.
With all of these factors in mind these missions have been designed to the worst case scenario for the next two decades. By doing this NASA limits its chances of the mission going bad since NASA will not be using artificial gravity on the journey to the Martian planet. This will reduce the amount of galactic cosmic radiation and encountering solar particle events from happening. One drawback to this is that the astronauts could suffer from muscle degeneration. This would me that their muscles will weaken on them a substantial amount and cause them to fall or have trouble walking when they reached the planet because they have not been able to use them while they were in zero-gravity. One way for the astronauts to prevent this from happening is to work - out everyday to prevent this substantial loss of muscle from happening. NASA is also currently working o ways to prevent the first space murder from occurring since all six of these people will be living together for a period of at the least 3 1/2 years. This is a long time to be with six people in one place for this amount of time. NASA must find the astronauts ways to keep busy and stress free for the most part.
After the astronauts get situated on the planets surface a series of experiments will be done on the planet. First and foremost these experiments are being carried out to determine if there is any possible life that has thrived on the planet in the past and whether or not the planet will become habitable for human existence on the surface of the planet in the future. These things will be determined by the gathering of the data and analyzing it to determine a more permanent base on mars for future missions to the planet. With these things scientist can learn to develop survival strategies for living on mars with the use of equipment and techniques. By gathering data on the planet we can analyze the atmosphere and environmental conditions on mars by using something called nano-tachnology. Through the use of nano- technology scientist on the planet can monitor and detect things such as temperature , wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, moisture, magnetic measurements, radiation and so on. It has been known for quite a long time by the people of this planet that our planet is dying.
More and more each day we as a whole our killing our planet. We do this through pollution, urban sprawl, and killing off other species of life on this planet, cutting down our rain forests etc. We must look for other ways to sustain our existence as a species if we want to survive. Mars gives us this opportunity. NASA is looking into a way of melting the polar ice caps on mars to produce a reverse global warming effect on the planet. This hopefully will be able to produce oxygen into the atmosphere that will enable us to use the Martian land to grow flowers and trees and other things that are need for life to be sustained on the planet NASA is hoping to induce the melting of the ice caps through large solar panels that will be strategically placed around the perimeter of the ice caps which will focus the suns rays on them and cause the caps to melt. NASA is also offering to pay anyone who can come up with a more efficient way of space travel all they have to do is prove it can work. NASA does not care if you have a degree in aerodynamics only that this will work. If NASA is giving people a chance to help in this project shouldn't we start focusing our society on this fact that we will not survive if we as a species do not work to prevent our species from dying out. If something like this is going to work we need to work with all people from all our nations to get this done and NASA is doing this too. Only the best from six nations will be selected for this assignment. With something as crucial to our survival as this we can only afford the best.
