Future Manned Space Missions
Why do I like space? Well because space is f**king awesome! I mean the possibilities are endless even with today's technology, I recon we have the technology to fly to Mars. After all we did land on the Lunar surface in 1969 so why not Mars now!With private companies such as Virgin Galactic which offer members of the pubic to go into space for a huge sum of £90'000, I can see in the near future, maybe the next 15-20 years, private Lunar missions, Mars missions & more.
Virgin Galactic are just one of the many private companies looking to offer commercial space-flight. Sir Richard Branson has also made a deal with NBC to televise the world's first commercial space-flight.
First Flight
The first flight is currently expected to take place around 2014 from Spaceport America in New Mexico."Virgin Galactic is thrilled that NBCUniversal will join us on our exciting first journey to space"
above is the two concept spacecraft which will be used in the first televised commercial flight
Barrack Obama's Asteroid landing proposal
Private companies offering space flights is only the beginning...Barrack Obama has plans to send humans to land on an Asteroid as early as 2025. NASA has even spoke about plans to use robotic spacecraft to pull a smaller asteroid into orbit just beyond the Moon. Now that would be sick...in a few years time I could be sitting in my flat somewhere in a London district sipping on a cider looking at something other than the Moon and stars lol.
Space race manned Lunar landings
This has been a topic I have been thinking about for some time now. There has been 6 landings - and 12 people - on the Moon; all were U.S Apollo missions. There has been a total of 6 Lunar landings to date, all by Americans, or has there? Apollo's 18-20 were apparently cancelled & Apollo 13 didn't make it but surprisingly all crew members survived. Why haven't we been back? Surely today's technology is more efficient and cheaper than spacecraft used back then. I think its more than budget which cancelled future missions. Did we encounter extra-terrestrials?
This is one of my favorite photos. It was taken on the Apollo 11 mission.
Stepping on the red planet
According to NASA mankind could only be a decade away from walking on Mars, as the US space agency makes its final preparations to land a one-tonne exploratory rover which is the largest yet – on the barren red planet.
A probe the size of a small car will hurtle through the Martian atmosphere at 13,000mph early on Monday morning using engineering which, if successful, could lay the stepping stones to make way for the first manned Mars landing.
“If we had the motive, if it was important enough I would say within 10 years we could be there,”
Adam Steltzner, the lead mechanical engineer for the entry, told The Daily Telegraph.
“Putting men on Mars is not un-achievable. It is just really hard and expensive. So if the world were to find itself with enough resources and the motivation, we could do it.”
So we have Asteroid Landings, Lunar Landings, Mars landings and commercial space flights...things are getting serious!:D. .
