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#1 2005-09-30 11:06:39
- Yang Liwei Rocket
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Re: Is year 2011 the most crucial for exploring the Red Planet ?
Its not so rare to look so far ahead, or predict so far into the future. People are already looking ahead to Rosetta, NASA's IBEX, the Mercury craft Messenger and ESA's solar orbiter. George W. Bush announced an initiative of manned space exploration, includes a manned return to the moon by 2015 at the earliest and sending astronauts to Mars to build a Mars base sometime in the future. Bush said let's go to the Moon and Mars but NASA had told the American people most of the requested $866 million budget increase for 2005 would be used to get the shuttles back in the air.NASA will get the shuttle up and flying again, and it is sad to see media feeding frenzy that has started over the Discovery near miss. In the year 2011 we have the Mars Scout Mission, and other very important events will be taking place. Others like Russia have robotic ideas and a Russian Shuttle, while the European Space Agency has the long-term vision of sending a human mission to Mars using the ESA Aurora Programme.
NASA could buy Soyuz rides commercially for its other manned space flight plans when the Shuttle is put to rest. Launch windows occur to the Red Planet at intervals of about 2.1 years or about 779 however manned flights may already be in trouble. The gap of even 5 years in some sort of shuttle operations does not bode well for ISS, and the days of last graduating astronaut class have been told not to expect to fly anytime soon. However NASA plans to spend nearly a quarter of a Trillion dollars developing the capability to send astronauts to the moon in tiny little capsules on sight-seeing voyages to the moon. By 2013 NASA's CEV will be absorbing maximum funding with an operational vehicle or not NASA might be expecting too much from the CEV program and some have asked is the younger-Bush vision dimming like the other plans for landing on Mars, I've heard NASA cost going from 13.5 billion to 19 B dollars which would be 13,500 million to 19,000 million budget.. In the year 2011 we will see some good news with the Mars Science Laboratory. The shuttle is to be retired by 2010 and there will be a period 2010-2015 where no manned US rockets will be flown. Maybe ESA or JPAX, Russians or the Chinese will step up, so the Nasa space gap will be filled by the Russians ? :?
If you don't think the 2011 time is the most vital, then what year do you think is most important for manned missions to Mars and building a base on the Moon, 2007, 2018, 2005, 2015 ? and explain you reason please !! 
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#2 2005-10-19 18:33:23
- EuroLauncher
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Re: Is year 2011 the most crucial for exploring the Red Planet ?
2018 is the date because they said they'll be on the Moon
and if they ain't on the Moon by then you can forget about Mars, unless others like Russia or China have something planned sooner
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#3 2006-03-03 19:18:07
- EuroLauncher
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Re: Is year 2011 the most crucial for exploring the Red Planet ?
the most important year seems to be 2006 if we get past it
if they even survive NASAs 2006 Budget - so far we see NASA to pull the plug on Dawn asteroid mission, Mars research has been cut by $243.3 million to $700.2 million. This reflects the cancellation or indefinite postponement of missions such as the Mars Sample Return Mission and the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter. Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has been given no funding for the foreseeable future SOFIA (the 2.5-meter IR telescope carried on a Boeing 747) is teetering on the brink of cancellation, and the entire "Beyond Einstein" program of major cosmology and high-energy astronomy missions (staring with Constellation-X, LISA, and the Joint Dark Energy Mission) has been cancelled pending major reappraisal and another victim: Keck outrigger telescopes.
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#4 2006-03-03 20:10:47
- GCNRevenger
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Re: Is year 2011 the most crucial for exploring the Red Planet ?
The most important part is every day up until the last Shuttle is wheels down in Florida/California come 2010, and NASA stops having to juggle two expensive programs at the same time.
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#5 2006-03-28 04:52:20
- Mars_B4_Moon
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Re: Is year 2011 the most crucial for exploring the Red Planet ?
the most important year seems to be 2006 if we get past it
if they even survive NASAs 2006 Budget - so far we see NASA to pull the plug on Dawn asteroid mission
Dawn is back
good news for Dawn
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