Send Astronauts One Way - A Planned Suicide Mission

Kenshin · 2004-01-19 00:13:08

Interesting points all around. I signed up on the board because I just had to post as well.

As for my view on a one-way Mars mission (calling it "suicide" is silly I think): where do I sign, and when do we leave?

I think that there is no better way to encourage Mars research and exploration than to send a small, well-equipped team to live indefinately on Mars. If at some point they are able to return by use of another spacecraft, great, but they should expect that they may live the rest of their lives on the red planet. I'd go in a heartbeat.

Supplies and new crew members could be sent every year, and in a few years you'd have a full-fledged Mars colony. As with any exploration, yes, people might die, but, like me, there are MANY young scientists who would take that risk for the chance to be one of the first humans living on another planet.

A great article on the subject (maybe someone else posted it, I may have missed it) is here: [http://nytimes.com/2004/01/15/opinion/15DAVI.html]http://nytimes.com/2004/01/15/opinion/15DAVI.html

Kenshin · 2004-01-19 10:35:57

There is a big difference between sending astronauts to Mars with all the equipment they need to live forever, and sending them in a suicide mission, with supply and equipment for just 2 years, and then bye-bye...

tru.dat

atitarev · 2004-01-19 12:26:20

Interesting points all around. I signed up on the board because I just had to post as well.
As for my view on a one-way Mars mission (calling it "suicide" is silly I think): where do I sign, and when do we leave?
I think that there is no better way to encourage Mars research and exploration than to send a small, well-equipped team to live indefinately on Mars. If at some point they are able to return by use of another spacecraft, great, but they should expect that they may live the rest of their lives on the red planet. I'd go in a heartbeat.
Supplies and new crew members could be sent every year, and in a few years you'd have a full-fledged Mars colony. As with any exploration, yes, people might die, but, like me, there are MANY young scientists who would take that risk for the chance to be one of the first humans living on another planet.
A great article on the subject (maybe someone else posted it, I may have missed it) is here: [http://nytimes.com/2004/01/15/opinion/15DAVI.html]http://nytimes.com/2004/01/15/opinion/15DAVI.html

Kenshin, the link requires an account to view it, so I didn't enjoy reading your link.

I would go one way to Mars as well, if I were offered and my family agreed to come with me.

Rxke · 2004-01-19 13:16:44

Anatoli, you can make a free account with fictional name and adress, even a fake email like something@hotmail.com

People do it all the time. Officially i do of course not recommend such action (hee hee)

NYTimes sometimes has interesting, long articles, also sometimes they're really bad... But you can't learn too much, can you?

While I'm at it, what is your view on Russia's space infrastructure, missions,... for the future?
I've read somewhere that, even though the economy isn't exactly fantastic, Russia currently has the worlds fastest growing economy(!) so things are gradually changing for the better again.

I've always been very impressed by the Spaceprogram of USSR/Russia, the drive, the people... Would be a shame to see it all go to dust...

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