One-way ticket to Mars

harp AP 2010

I wouldn't go, I would want to go back home at some time. But I would go if it were a round trip :0

Eagle9

I would but who will fund such flight? I wonder, would be there at least one wealthy person who will spend money for such journey? Also, what do you think hw much it would cost to build one-seat spacecraft for Martian spaceflight? When doing this we could use old technologies from "Mercury-Gemini-Apolo" and/or "Soyuz" flights, no new technologies would be needed We should just think about protection from radiation

Tanelorn

Radrook, what is the point of existance?
Sit down in a field humming Om to oneself?
Or watching another bunch of executives rip the rest of us off?
Or letting some deranged politicians start another pointless war over sand?
I would rather not even have been born than to waste our existance on all that.


What better goal to unite the world in a challenge to establish a foothold on another.

brainstorm

Why does it have to require wealth persons to spend money? Couldn't governments simply declare access to the needed materials and resources if they thought they could get away with it?

Eagle9

The government of course can declare access to needed materials and technologies but for assembling the spacecraft and for launching it in space the money would be needed and I do not think that any government (American or other) would allocate money for this purpose

WhoWee

Does this mean there will be single women on board (some may reason).

JaredJames

With my luck there'd be only the one, and she'd be a lesbian.

Tanelorn

I was lucky enough to talk to an astronaut at Cape Canaveral yesterday. She said that she had no idea what comes after Shuttle. Also that a one way trip to Mars would be suicide at the moment, the technology needs to be developed. I said I would love to make a one way trip to Mars at this time in my life, providing I would get to live several years on Mars..

gb7nash

The only way I'd take a one-way trip to mars is if it were colonized (e.g. Total Recall). I wouldn't go there now though, there's nothing to do and I'd run out of life support!

Borg

The one-way schemes involve maintaining supplies over the lifetime of the astronauts. The thinking is that it would be much more difficult to return the astronauts than to just supply them for life.

NeoDevin

No, the thinking is that it would be easier for the astronauts to produce whatever they need, rather than come home to get it.

Borg

You're probably right. It does make more sense that they would have to be 100% self-sufficient. Trying to maintain regular supply to Mars would make the Berlin airlift look like a bucket brigade. Even 'emergency' supplies would still take months to years to arrive depending on the planetary alignments.

I thought that I remembered reading an article about astronauts being supplied but I couldn't find anything that stated it either way. I spent an hour trying to find any description of supply but, found nothing - even the link on my original post isn't working. I'm probably remembering something about habitat module deliveries as the colony grows.

In any case, it still wouldn't be designed to be the suicide mission that gb7nash fears.

Greg Bernhardt

I'm bringing this back because 78k people did sign up for the one way trip!

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/4791...-trip-to-mars/

reenmachine

Yes I would.It would be my shot at not only becoming a legend but also realizing one of my childhood dreams to go into space.Of course the death part is unfortunate , but death is not avoidable anyway.Might as well go out with a bang.

Though there's no way of knowing how I would react facing the decision in a more serious context.Maybe I would lose my balls and re-consider my desire to become a legend or going into space versus living for a couple of decades longer.

AnTiFreeze3

There's no way I wouldn't go.

Spourk

Going to respond first, before I read the entire thread. In my lifetime? Hell no... Details to follow...

Edit: Alright, after reading everything I don't want to sound pessimistic. I really do want humanity to explore and colonize other planets, but we need to be a little more ready for it. We need to put a few modules on the moon first, see how that goes. Too and from trips to Mars are harsh, considering the first batch of people that arrive on Mars are going to go through atrophy/acclimating themselves in harsh conditions, radiation, a bunch of problems we haven't solved yet that will cost a pretty penny.

I'm all for seeing it happen though, I'll be on the first luxury cruise there when it happens, providing I find a way to extend my lifetime a century or so. ^_^ (who knows?)

Edit 2: I just realized this was a resurrected thread :/

D H

You necromanced the wrong thread. This thread is (was) about a science daily article, which in turn was based on an supposedly scientific article in a supposedly scientific journal. The Science Daily article is no longer available (dead link in the original post) and that supposedly scientific journal isn't listed in Thomson Reuters (posting a link would be against our rules). There was no time line, no plan, no budget, but there also isn't a reality TV show.

You should have resurrected this other thread about Mars One instead. The referenced thread is about the specific mission, Mars One, for which these 78K people have signed up. Here there's a time line (but it's fiction), a pseudo plan (also fiction), and a budget (also fiction). In addition, they even have an outline for a reality TV show that's the real reason for this endeavor.