The Benefits Of A Colony 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.

When scientists colonize mars it will give people the opportunity to find ice underground, it well inspire so many people, and it will allow mankind another place to live. People are ready to go to mars for things the Earth needs. It will be a expensive trip but scientists can do

Imagine going on a six billion dollar rocket ship and never seeing your family or friends again. The astronauts will risk their lives because it is a dangerous expedition and could easily fail if the people die from lack of oxygen. Colonizing Mars is a terrible idea there is no natural source of water, if Mars One sends them they cannot come back once they arrive there, and someone could get sick and die before they get there.

Visiting Mars is even harder than that, with a whole additional set of problems. We can probably visit Mars in the next 20-30 years, but colonization is something on a much larger scale that we really don't have the resources available to do, unless we're willing to make substantial sacrifices, and continue those sacrifices since an off-world colony won't be anywhere near self-sustaining. The Moon will likely be the first bases in our lifetimes, and possibly Mars. Serious colonization of either isn't likely for decades at

Added to the economic costs to America, a venture to Mars causes substantial risk to the society. The environment and society are very important to human survival on Earth. Even though some people feel that exploring Mars may help understand the Earth better, and going to Mars will be a great scientific milestone, in my opinion exploring Mars is a bad idea. The atmosphere on Mars is about 100 times thinner than earth and it is not suitable for us to breath. It contains about 95% of carbon dioxide and little or no oxygen. This will make it very difficult for humans to survive there. Unlike Mars, which is not protected and is exposed to everything, the Earth is protected by the ozone layer. Exploring Mars will be dangerous to humans and very expensive to taxpayers. This will take years of planning and the mission will take years instead of days. The astronauts who go there may run out of oxygen and even fall sick. They will be unable to just return at any time. They have to wait until the earth aligns with Mars before they can return. All this could take months or even

That is a question many people ask and have been asking for quite a long time. Is the answer just because the process is taking a long time or is the reason bigger then that? According to news.nationalgeographic.com “humans put all of their ideas and efforts into working on the mission but they've never left the drawing board.” NASA’s preparation for the trip to Mars has taken at least 70 years (Heres Why, 2017). Many people are still scared about new missions because they're reminded of the Apollo 1 tragedy in 1967. There are many problems that humans could face if they went to Mars such as, they will need enough water, food, oxygen, etc. There is also the risk of being exposed to radiations from spending years in space (Choi, 2017). “It’s a choice, not an imperative” says John Logsdon a professor at the George Washington University’s space policy institute, many may have the same beliefs as him, but one day traveling to Mars could become an imperative and humans need to be ready and prepared for that day (Heres Why, 2017).

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.

Richard, an author for the website GOVTEEN Global Community, wrote an article briefly explaining why we as a nation, should not go to Mars. Some of the key points of his argument against going to Mars stressed that the financial cost would be too high, it would require several new spacecraft and ground habitats, and several new technologies that currently do not exist. He also was concerned about the budget cuts that have already stripped the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) to a shell of what the space program used to be. He also stressed that we are still in an armed conflict that has put a strain on our nation, economically and emotionally.

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.

NASA and ESA have been the main factors of developing space ships that will reduce the factors of failure or risk of the mission. Technology is not the greatest problem itself, space agencies probably have enough technology to go to Mars, considering that our current cell phones have more technology more than Apollo 13 did. The challenge itself is to identify every risk and every step with its details and consequences. We always have to remember that before we can run, we have to walk, and before we can explore the space, we have to leave our planet and be confident about our surroundings. There are some pretty big gaps in our abilities, including the fact that we can't efficiently store the necessary fuel long enough for a Mars trip, more fuel means more weight, and more weight means more fuel to operate. We also don't yet have a vehicle capable of landing people on the Martian surface, and we aren't entirely sure what it will take to keep them alive once there. Sure fuel is not the only thing that human needs if they lived went to

The Mars One project, a mission that will attempt to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars, has become immensely popular since its announcement in December of 2013. With the mission’s growing popularity, the CEO of the project, Bas Lansdrop, has established that within twelve years, the first humans will land on the surface of the barren planet and begin colonization (“Mars One: Roadmap”.) Mars One presents our species with the capability to discover new life forms, valuable resources, and it pushes the limits of our technological potential. It is not perplexing to see why countless individuals have signed up to be a part of this historic mission, and ultimately “the next giant leap for mankind.” (Lansdrop.) Although this mission

Now we are a step closer to making it our second planet that humans have lived on. But there is a problem! We as in humans have spent billions upon billions of dollars on the trips to the moon and sending a drone to Mars, Pluto, etc... But why are we trying to find a way to get to another planet and not trying to save this one. Lets fast forward a couple thousand years right! We have made our way to Mars and concurred it. What are we going to do to our sweet mother earth. Are we going to leave it destroyed or will we still care. The only thing that is going to happen if we come to Mars is the same thing that happens on Earth. We are going to destroy Mars as well. We are going to live there and then destroy it in a mater of millions of years. Why do we have to move to another planet when we can just stay and fix

The trip, colonizing, and supplying Mars could cost up to one-hundred billion dollars. Plus, with all the things humans have to fix on Mars, like the atmosphere and that there is no oxygen on Mars already. the trip is not worth America’s time and money. One-hundred billion dollars could go towards making Earth more livable. Plus, even with that quantity of money, we still can not get the astronauts back if they are sent up in 2025 because of the technology.

I would not support NASA’s manned mission to mars because of the financial constrains attached with it. Data from several readings suggest that the total cost of the mission is going to be approximately $80 to $100 billion which is definitely a huge amount. A workshop group of more than 60 individuals representing more than 30 government, industry, academic and other organizations has found that a NASA-led manned mission is not feasible with current budget in hand. NASA already spends around $4 billion a year on exploration programs; most of that is devoted to developing the Orion spacecraft and a new rocket that would one day carry astronauts to Mars or other deep-space destinations. This amount of money could be used for present issues like poverty, unemployment that are cause of serious concern for a large group of

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