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To: LibWhacker

with all due respect, we’ve been “going to Mars” since I was little. I won’t hold my breath.


6 posted on 03/14/2018 1:58:02 AM PDT by goldendelicious
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To: goldendelicious

You will not see it before you die. We can’t even go to the moon again.


17 posted on 03/14/2018 4:36:17 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: goldendelicious

According to someone I know who works for NASA, the problem with sending humans to Mars is the amount of radiation they would be exposed to in the long trip to get there. Then the radiation they would be exposed to on the surface and then the same on the return trip.

The other major problem with exposure to zero gravity is actual bone loss, muscle loss and effects of zero gravity on our eye balls.

It is all the physical effects that would happen to the people, not the ability to build a rocket, send them and then bring them back.

This is what we have learned by sending people to the international space station for the last X years. FYI, the NASA employee that told me this is also a former US Air Force Lt. Colonel and now a member of the Air National Guard. He is a pilot and was a navigator and bombardier in the Air Force prior to joining NASA. He trained with astronauts that flew on the space shuttle.


23 posted on 03/14/2018 6:41:45 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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