Iori Komei
03-05-2008, 10:10 PM
All the official scenarios for going to Mars involve a multi-person crew, and a return to Earth. But what if we sent just one man, without a plan to return him to our world?
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7010/marsmission1rk3.jpg
But wouldn't a one-way voyage be a suicide mission? McLane says a solo astronaut wouldn’t be alone on Mars for long, and could be joined in a couple of years by another volunteer, perhaps of the opposite sex, in an Adam-and-Eve scenario.
Certainly there would need to be some kind of biosphere constructed once the astronaut arrived on the planet, maybe using solar power, fuel cells, or nuclear fuel. The tiny colony could be re-provisioned periodically by supply ships while it slowly built another civilization.
SOURCE:
DVICE (http://dvice.com/archives/2008/03/oneway_ticket_t.php)
This makes so much more sense to me.
I mean all the complexities required to send a crew their and then bring them back with the same vehicle just has always seemed to make things overtly complex in my opinion.
I think this is probably the best way to go, set up a biosphere robotically first then send a small crew there on a one way mission and keep sending supplies and crew as the base becomes big enough to sustain more people.
What's everyone else think?
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7010/marsmission1rk3.jpg
But wouldn't a one-way voyage be a suicide mission? McLane says a solo astronaut wouldn’t be alone on Mars for long, and could be joined in a couple of years by another volunteer, perhaps of the opposite sex, in an Adam-and-Eve scenario.
Certainly there would need to be some kind of biosphere constructed once the astronaut arrived on the planet, maybe using solar power, fuel cells, or nuclear fuel. The tiny colony could be re-provisioned periodically by supply ships while it slowly built another civilization.
SOURCE:
DVICE (http://dvice.com/archives/2008/03/oneway_ticket_t.php)
This makes so much more sense to me.
I mean all the complexities required to send a crew their and then bring them back with the same vehicle just has always seemed to make things overtly complex in my opinion.
I think this is probably the best way to go, set up a biosphere robotically first then send a small crew there on a one way mission and keep sending supplies and crew as the base becomes big enough to sustain more people.
What's everyone else think?