Posted on 09/01/2018 2:38:05 PM PDT by LibWhacker
We could have been on Mars in the 80’s if we had been willing to spend the $$
The Saturn5 was capable of launching a heavy vehicle to Mars....
Von Braun said he could do it by 1985....
No, it definitely does not.
However, I would not send this young lady, or any other person for that matter, on this mission, because the technology to safely accomplish it simply does not exist.
With a proper vehicle, with centrifugal gravity, even an overweight and out-of-shape person could go to Mars.
If we had a propulsion system capable of sustained thrust you would not even have to endure the high-G of launch...we will get there.
No, it definitely does not.
However, I would not send this young lady, or any other person for that matter, on this mission, because the technology to safely accomplish it simply does not exist.
It doesn’t, but I think it will. In the meantime, young people with an adventurous spirit can only be an asset.
Its called outercourse up there
Did John Glen grasp it? did Neal Armstrong grasp it?
Yes indeed those men did
Dream on President Rapist. Although, if I had a wife that looked like yours I might dream of rape also.
The race-baiting around Apollo by the leftist poverty pimps was an outrage, and disgraceful that anybody paid them any attention.
Its a heavy thing, leaving behind familiar comforts uncertain of when/if you will ever embrace them again. One would have to embark a journey like this as if they were going to die. All of the explorers in the past had to have no fear of dying/no expectations of earthly reward. Just praying for Providence.
Hell, I get the chills going on an elk hunt thinking about stuff like this. I always say a prayer to my maker beforehand.
This young lady must realize that this is a one-way trip at best.
Yes indeed those men did
I must agree. :)
But this does not lessen my admiration for those with an explorer spirit. It all begins somewhere, right?
Once you go there , you are there.. period. There is no guarantee of any return voyages from any Mars colonized sites, not right away anyway or any time soon.. but they’re working on it.. at lightspeed I hope. The kid in me is getting older by the lunar day.
Outercourse, outer space, makes sense I think???
What do you mean? She’s been to space camp with her dad. She’s working on getting a pilots licence. Highly qualified.
My kid became a space geek when he was five. He told my wife he wanted to work at NASA building rockets.
For his sixth birthday she made him a rocket ship cake.
She made the same cake for his 22nd birthday. The next day he graduated college as an Astronautical Engineer.
He’s not building rockets yet but he’s been working at NASA and flies satellites.
That is awesome! Your son is a true pioneer!
She will be left there a year? When they come back she will not be alive.
This is horrendous. Suicide mission.
Nothing.
But congratulations on being the first Freeper to actually read the article rather then just the headline and knee-jerk.
We're not talking about a 3 year old anymore, we're talking about a 17 year old young adult.
.Only on FR will the dreams and actual positive actions being taken to fulfill those dreams of a 17 year old girl be ridiculed........
Your screen name is appropriate.........
That’s a big negative NASA.
Never going to happen.
Appears this went over every ones heads.
Previous FR threads state that Mars is a One Way trip.
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