50 Years of Mars exploration

[Araviel]

i just wanted to share this as i think it could inspire some Elite explorers to go out and do some more exploring.

To Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mars exploration, the Jet propulsion Laboratory together whit NASA has released this video -

[video=youtube;pwipxdQ74pU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v=pwipxdQ74pU[/video]

i sobbed a little when watching it, and now i am more excited about Elite horizons than ever.
hope you will enjoy it to

 

[newman1702]

Thanks for the link. I do wonder when we'll finally set foot on the red planet - hope I'm around to see it.

 

[nicomak]

50 years on Mars already...

I suppose many believed in the days that in the 50 years following the lunar landing we'd have landed on Mars by then ... i'm not even sure we'll get there in the next 50 years.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

50 years on Mars already...

I suppose many believed in the days that in the 50 years following the lunar landing we'd have landed on Mars by then ... i'm not even sure we'll get there in the next 50 years.

Most probably we won't in 50 years. To this day it's even technically and economically difficult to go back to the moon.

Last time i checked NASA was asking suggestion to James Cameron, wich as a top notch sci-FI author replied the astronauts should resentethize the fuel to come back from mars rocks...

ESA says that for the return trip they should go around VENUS the regain enough acceleration. Why not a coffe on Saturn?

Russian say we currently lack the technology.

 

[nicomak]

And probably a lack of political will/interest as well. We had the technology to go to the moon, and now we kind of dont ... We didnt stop going to the moon because of a lack of technology anyways.
Of course Mars is a much more difficult target to reach. But we might have been closer to reaching that goal today if we had not given up on the Moon.

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

Thank you for sharing. Excellent video and yes, Horizons please

 

[Alex Traut]

We have the technology, and what we don't have is well within our capacity to create in very short order. When we actually apply budget to and prioritize solving a technical challenge at a national or international level, we solve it.

The lack of space exploration and settlement in the last few decades is 100% a deficiency in political will, funding, and public enthusiasm.