Space Technology : The Advancement Of Space Travel To Mars

We don’t know if there is a disease out in pace that could well be fatal. Being on a long trip to Mars could cause degeneration in muscles, bones, and your heart. Astronauts also need a bunch of exercise as well. Without it, he/she is likely to experience heart problems because it would be too weak to return to Earth’s gravity. Lastly, there is a LOT of radiation exposure in space. Gary Marin, director for advanced programs at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said, “Being away from the Earth for three years would mean every cell of your body would be transversed by a galactic ray, and we just don't know what that would do to people." All these health risks add up to an astronomical danger. We need to test how our body reacts to long trips in space before we take take the big leap for

In conclusion, traveling to Mars may seem like a great idea, but it really isn't. 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. It may seem like we are fighting human nature to explore what we can, but for the interest of humanity, Mars can

By going to mars you could have nerve damage, getting blind and dementia, 16% of the loss of bone density, 40% muscle density not work. All these symptoms are a cause of getting people to travel to mars and that is something that we need to prevent from happening and until it is safe to travel, but right now it’s a no to going to mars. Sending robots are less dangerous than sending a human there is less risk because a robot is easier to feed, they are much easier to shield from radiation and could do things that a human could do. A robot is less cost for just sending one and a one-way trip and they don’t have to sleep only to recharge but is way easier than having a human in outer space than a

The trip is about eight months long and there is no natural source of water on Mars. There could be a disease on Mars that’s not on Earth and if someone gets it there are no doctors or medicine on Mars. One of the people could get hurt, for example, someone can receive a huge cut and die from loss of blood since there are no doctors on Mars. No one knows what will happen if you get a cut on mars the dust could infect the cut. Therefore people should not go to mars if they don’t know how dangerous it is.

In this argumentative essay, I will discuss how the manned mission to Mars is being planned and its specifications. Furthermore, how the mission, if executed successfully, will be mankind’s greatest accomplishment yet. However, I will attempt to prove that this mission will inevitably fail due to the unready team and its defective circumstances.

On the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” He was the first astronaut to walk on the moon and this event was a significant point in history for space exploration. Now from the success of the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts will travel to Mars during the 2030’s and I want to take part in the excursion to the Red Planet. In the past couple of years, I have been obtaining knowledge about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the exploration to Mars. Ever since I was younger, I enjoyed spending time at night stargazing with friends and family as well as watching Star Wars, Star Trek, and other science fiction movies. Over the years my fascination for outer space

The NASA space program has had enormous impacts on the world. Thanks to NASA the United States has explored thousands of celestial bodies throughout the galaxy with telescopes, rovers, and in the moon 's case, people. In the next decade, NASA plans to expand the United State’s human exploration to more than just the moon. A Mars mission has been in NASA’s eye for quite a while now and with technology advancing every day, they feel it is time to send men and women to the red planet. Some believe the journey could prove too dangerous for humans; however, through research and development scientists can find ways to safely transport astronauts to and from Mars. This is a necessary step in the country 's advancements in health, technology and

It has become such an iconic idea, that most if not all children in the last 60 years have thought that they would be alive to see the expedition, if not be part of it themselves. Of course, space travel is not a simple there and back scenario. As seen in the American Apollo program, there are many places throughout a mission where things can and most defiantly will go wrong with technology. In addition, there are inevitably even more challenging obstacles for a mission to face once they get into space. These challenges include loss of muscle, bone, and suppression of the human immune systems and over time we have found that these bodily effects seem to become progressively worse the longer an astronaut travels through space. Before we even begin discussing when we should attempt land manned space missions on other planets, we need a better understanding of the effect of long term space travel and occur in the first place and find ways to combat them so that prolonged space travel is not destructive to the human

NASA should not send people to Mars because of health dangers. According to NASA Human Research Program, "exposure to radiation could increase your lifetime risk for cancer" ("The Human Body in Space"). Being in Space has many health effects such as cancer. It would not be a good idea to travel to Mars knowing astronauts can possibly get this deadly disease. Furthermore, going to Mars will damage mental health.

Neil Degrasse Tyson once stated, ¨The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.”Also, in the article, “Could Humans Actually Live on Mars?,” Laurie Vazquez, the author, writes, “For thousands of years, humans have looked up at the night sky and pondered their place in the cosmos. One little red dot in particular has long held our interest.” Mars, also known as the ¨red planet¨, is the fourth planet from the sun and is composed of rock with a thin, full of CO2, atmosphere. Additionally, to reach Martian land you have to leave Earth every two years because it is faster and safer when Mars is at its closest it can be to us. It takes 300 days on a spacecraft from Earth

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, said, “I agree that we will be able to make it to Mars, but it probably won’t be as easy as you think, even if you think it’s going to be really hard.”

After decades of trying to send humans to Mars, thousands of years later humans have finally formed a colony on Mars. After generations of living on the new planet, humans have adapted to the different conditions of being away from Earth. The story will follow new people’s lives on Mars and what happens when some leave Mars to go back to Earth.

How long would a “long term” space flight be? According to our records, the longest that human has been off Earth is almost 438 days, and it is the mission operated by Russian space station Mir. (Beings not Made for Space, Kenneth Chang, 2014) Long-term space flight requests that astronauts have to be exposed to the real space environment, which includes microgravity, the significant increase in radiation, variation in temperature and space view. Due to these changes of space environment from that of the Earth, astronauts will face the changes on their body and health, some of the changes would be negative. For example, astronauts will see the significant changes in their body; their whole bodies will expand, the mass of their bones and muscles would lose, and some of them might have farsighted eyes. To build a better space environment, scientists have been working hard to find out what is causing the health issues and ways to solve them. They have done well-known researches such as “Twins Study” between Mark and Kelly Scott. The latest technology that involved is called artificial gravity; it is considered desirable for long-term space flight as well as human habitat in space.

Mars; the fourth planet from the sun, and considering the vast expanse of the universe, Mars is only a mere 49 million miles from Earth. Mars has been the object of many speculative questions and hypothesis. Over the years, many have wondered if Mars ever sustained life, or if not, if it were possible to one day sustain life; i.e. Humans. There have been many missions to Mars in an attempt to answer those and other questions, like the three separate rover craft missions that will be discussed in this paper. Most recently, the idea to put humans on Mars has gained traction and scientists have begun the process to put that plan into motion. The goal of this paper is to provide more in-depth detail of those missions, their

Only because of this unique trait have we been able to accomplish the many extraordinary things evident today. Over the course of the past 100 years, our kind has developed such things never imaginable to previous civilizations; things such as computers, washing machines, microwave ovens, smartphones, heart pacemakers, penicillin, and countless others. There is no doubt that pursuing a mission to Mars will be the most difficult thing humanity has attempted, but it will also be the most phenomenal. This fantasy of becoming spacefarers is now a reality. In the words of the great science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, "We are the consciousness of the universe, and our job is to spread that around, to go look at things, to live everywhere we can. It's too dangerous to keep the consciousness of the universe on one planet; it could be wiped out. Mars will always remain Mars, different from Earth, colder and wilder. But it can be Mars and ours at the same time. And it will be. There is this about the human mind: if it can be done, it will be done. We can do it, so we will do it. So we might as well start” (“Why