Should We Put People On Mars?

Money is a huge problem when it come to going to space. It would cost $230 billion to go to Mars. To put this into perspective, the government makes $4.1 trillion in taxes each year and our country owes China $19 trillion. There is no way that we could do a manned mission to Mars with all that money we owe. We could spend our money on feeding and sheltering the poor as well. This shows that going to Mars is way too expensive and it would be a huge waste of money if anything went wrong. With everything we can do with money on Earth, going to Mars is a huge waste of time and resources.

We want to be able to go there and potentially create a “home” or a “base”. The first manned mission to Mars is supposedly going to be in 2030. No one quite knows when it’ll be, but scientists are trying their best.

Since the beginning of time, people have been curious, and are always trying to explore. But now it is 2017, and we have to understand what we should do and what we shouldn’t do. People today have a good idea about the hazards of space travel and know the consequences space travel can have for people. And after considering Andy Weir's statement regarding travel to Mars, I am of the opinion that we as a nation should not fund a manned mission to Mars in the near future because it will be very expensive, we have a larger need to explore places here on Earth, and it purposes a large danger to the people traveling in space.

Soon Mars could become another livable planet with people walking around on it. Earth is being overpopulated fast and Mars could be the solution. Mars has territory that the Earth needs. Once scientists send a few people and learn about mars we can send more people up to Mars. Eventually mars will be just like Earth, with cities, farms and people roaming around. People going up to mars can build us a new planet.

In conclusion, colonizing Mars is a terrible idea There is no known natural source of water, Once you get there you cannot come back , and If you get sick, the astronauts

Colonizing Mars would not only be a scientific breakthrough, but it would be extremely beneficial to the human race and their future. Mars would help humans in many ways by providing a planet for humans to fall back on if any bad event were to happen to Earth. Colonizing Mars would prove to be very helpful and rewarding. Also, many engineers and scientists like Elon Musk, founder of Space x and Tesla, are on board are on board with this futuristic idea.

One large project that is being pursued is colonizing mars with a human population. This will mold the future and newer generations. It can make us question the future and what lies ahead. It has been said that it will take no more than 50 years to fulfill the colonization of mars.

In the article, “Could Humans Actually Live on Mars?”, by Laurie Vazquez, scientists and experts are finding new ways to transport humans from Earth to Mars. Up until this point, people have only sent robots to Mars. Since humans have never personally been there, this could be a great event in history. Although there are many concerns regarding health and cost, people should start traveling to Mars to see if it is a suitable living space for humans. If real people could live on Mars, that would give the whole world the chance to keep living even after the planet dies.

Should humans really risk leaving earth forever to colonize Mars? There are so many high death risks! Colonizing Mars could be dangerous and risky due to deadly dust storms, a sub zero average temperature, and radiation that could possibly kill you.

The impossible was reached on July 20th 1969 when we sent the first man on the moon. The Apollo missions are the largest and most well known explorations that NASA has conducted. Ever since we reached this new high, our curiosity of space has grown even bigger. Funding NASA’s space program even further will continue to help us amplify our available resources and discover new information to benefit humanity. Not only that, but it could provide many ways for us to find a new home and expand our species farther into our solar system, potentially saving future generations. The expansion of this space program would be able to answer more of our questions than from what we can find here on Earth. Although there

Would you travel to a distant planet to colonize it, never come back, and never see your family in person again? That is what Mars One implies when you recruit to be a part of their mission to colonize Mars. Mars One is recruiting anyone that is in good physical and mental condition and 18 years or older to join the mission to colonize Mars, but they don’t list all the dangers on the front page of the website. This mission is unethical, extremely dangerous, and should not be executed.

Bas Lansdorp is the creator of Mars One. Mars One is the Mars colonization effort. The organization is a non-profit created by former NASA employee, Bas Lansdorp. “Mars One's mission design is currently in the early mission concept phase. So far, the main requirements for the mission have been identified and discussed with established aerospace companies.” As we can see, Bas Lansdorp has created Mars One, and knows its mission, but is still not completely stable about the technical details. “Human settlement on Mars is the next giant leap for humankind. This exploration of the solar system will bring the human race closer together.”.

Humans should never colonize Mars. If they did, the radiation would be a massive problem and there would have to be consumable food and water. The food would have to be able to be sustained there and the water would need to be in liquid form available for drinking. First of all, radiation would be a huge problem on Mars. NASA says,”A long voyage to Mars, with no big planet nearby to block or deflect that radiation, is going to be a new adventure.”

In the article Elon Musk says that there are two groups. Group one: This group has the money to invest and be one of the first pioneers to Mars. Group two: This group does not have money, but is volunteering to be one of the first pioneers to Mars. Overall, the estimated cost is about $10 billion per person. He also insists that we try to move these two groups together to try and drop the cost to the price of around the average U.S. house price. He predicts that enough people will sign up in large numbers to fund the project. His prediction does not seem so

The future colony on Mars will need to have an “intelligent use of local resources” (Zubrin3, 2) from the planet’s surface, have excellent crew morale and compatibility, and be entirely self-sufficient. This type of colony is imperative because of the fact that resupply spacecraft from Earth take several months to reach Mars, and precision landings, where rockets are used to guide a descending spacecraft very near a targeted object, or location, are extremely difficult. In addition the base would to not be allowed to use, or utilize NASA’s 90-Day Report program as a stepping stone because, “[b]efore humans could go to Mars, the report said, the nation would need a space infrastructure buildup of thirty years…NASA would build the previously