harmonica
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....with the longer trip/etc problems are exponentially more --not lessBlowing them up..shuttles I mean/ You do know the success/failure percentages for shuttle missions don't support your contention, right?...we can't even put shuttles into near Earth space without them blowing up --and you think we can get to Mars?LOL..not much into science, are you? For example..if there is water on Mars..and there probably is..at least at the poles...you have oxygen available via electrolysis--Mars gravity is lighter than Earths..and a mission would probably land the same way we did on the Moon..with a light vehicle..and the bulk of the weight in orbit. Err..we would wear spacesuits right?Here we have another Mars rover mission waste of money. To the tune of 2.46 Billion U.S. Dollars. Could this money not be spent here on Earth to feed many that need food and clean drinking water.? When is this waste of money to explore a dead red planet going to stop. How many of these rovers do we need.? Your thoughts on this matter.
You have an extraordinary limited view of things.
What Mars has to offer is off the charts to the continuation of our species.
We need to learn better about long distance space travel
A mission to Mars will be a suicide mission for humans. There is no oxygen, its to cold , and there is just to much ultravilolet radiation for humans to be exposed to. And once you land , you become to heavy to lift back off to get back to Earth!!.Not feaseble at all for humans to visit.
As one poster did point out..all the money will be spent here..providing jobs and serendipitous benefits of research to be applied here as well.
No program is going to have 100% success..failures will occur..it's part of the process. Flights to Mars..possible. Sure..we have the tech..it's the will that's lacking.
Also..the money..always about the money.
The thing is...space travel and colonization is a generational effort..not a lot of humans have the vision to undertake a project that will benefit their great-grandchildren..but give nothing to them. Trying to sell a trillion dollar effort..for some pie in the sky 100 years from now..is tough sledding...LOL!~
....they are WAY over budget, behind schedule and had problems with just the James Web Telescope--with NO people going into space !!!!
The complexity and difficulty cannot be overstated,”
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Plagued by Delays, Rising Costsa measly $500 million. When that ballooned to $5 billion