Mars...mankind is coming!!!

[RobertScorpio]

If you had to hazard a guess, when do you think the first manned mission to mars will land and step foot on the red planet

Rob
Canary

 

[Hermiod]

Never, there's no profit in it.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Never, there's no profit in it.

For now...I would agree...But if they find an underground ocean? Or some kind of fossil fuel? EXXON would be up there two years later..IMO..

Rob

 

[Hermiod]

Never, there's no profit in it.

For now...I would agree...But if they find an underground ocean? Or some kind of fossil fuel? EXXON would be up there two years later..IMO..

You'd still have to bring it back reliably in sufficient quantities to make it economically viable. The Apollo missions struggled with a few pounds of moon rocks.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Don't panic Mars.... Mankind is not coming anytime soon...


I accidentaly voted 2100s but I'd say at least 2050-2070 and beyond...

 

[137th Gebirg]

Personally, I get the impression that we've already been there. A long, long, long time ago.

 

[FordSVT]

Never, there's no profit in it.

And the "profit" from the Apollo missions was????

Barring a terrible event that cans all space exploration, I think we will put a person on Mars before 2050. Could be as early as 2030, but unlikely.

I doubt we'd have a permanent settlement or station there before 2100.

A couple hundred years from now I can see a network of Earth orbital satellites processing asteroids knocked out of the belt beyond Mars by crews based on the Red Planet. Sci-fi? Maybe, but it's not impossible. If there are 10-15 billion people living on this planet they'll have to get resources from some place without gnawing the earth to death. Raw silicon magnesium, iron, nickel, water.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Never, there's no profit in it.

And the "profit" from the Apollo missions was????

Barring a terrible event that cans all space exploration, I think we will put a person on Mars before 2050. Could be as early as 2030, but unlikely.

I doubt we'd have a permanent settlement or station there before 2100.

A couple hundred years from now I can see a network of Earth orbital satellites processing asteroids knocked out of the belt beyond Mars by crews based on the Red Planet. Sci-fi? Maybe, but it's not impossible. If there are 10-15 billion people living on this planet they'll have to get resources from some place without gnawing the earth to death. Raw silicon magnesium, iron, nickel, water.

Beating the Russians was the profit the American Government was after...and they got just that. (plus diversion from the Viet nam war)

Rob

 

[bigdaddy]

You forgot 2071 to 2099.

I say never, the race will be killed off, or at least 90% of us will be.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

About 2033, that's if the ESA's plan continues on schedule.

 

[Gepard]

Personally, I get the impression that we've already been there. A long, long, long time ago.

In a galaxy far, far away?

 

[BenSisko3sGirl]

I think private corporations will get us there first, where tourism will be the major profit.

 

[Q2UnME]

With the current state of the US economy and the ever changing face of government, I'd say that we'll never have a man (or women) set foot on Mars in my life time. (That would be the next 30 to 40 years, for those playing along at home). It will cost too much and will not be funded by the US Government alone. Who knows what 50 to 100 years will bring, but for now, there's no profit in going and the funds could be better used right here on this planet. If the various rovers that have been to Mars have shown us anthing, it's that robots can perform good science (and cost a lot less, with no risk of human life).

Q2UnME

 

[Brolan]

2040. It will be a joint US-Russian-Chinese-Euro mission.

 

[darkshadow0001]

If you had to hazard a guess, when do you think the first manned mission to mars will land and step foot on the red planet

Rob
Canary

I thought I remember hearing something about Bush wanting to start a project on this by 2010.

 

[Timewalker]

We should have been there 20 years ago!

 

[Brolan]

If you had to hazard a guess, when do you think the first manned mission to mars will land and step foot on the red planet

Rob
Canary

I thought I remember hearing something about Bush wanting to start a project on this by 2010.

That was just reelection political BS to make him look presidential. He never had any intentions of carrying it out.

 

[Dayton3]

If you had to hazard a guess, when do you think the first manned mission to mars will land and step foot on the red planet

Rob
Canary

I thought I remember hearing something about Bush wanting to start a project on this by 2010.

That was just reelection political BS to make him look presidential. He never had any intentions of carrying it out.

The current Ares V booster rocket being built was deliberately designed with the needs of a manned Mars mission in mind.

 

[Brolan]

I thought I remember hearing something about Bush wanting to start a project on this by 2010.

That was just reelection political BS to make him look presidential. He never had any intentions of carrying it out.

The current Ares V booster rocket being built was deliberately designed with the needs of a manned Mars mission in mind.

That's true, but for Bush all he wanted was to be reelected. You notice how since then there is less and less money available and the time frame for the Mars mission has been moved further into the future?

 

[RobertScorpio]

That was just reelection political BS to make him look presidential. He never had any intentions of carrying it out.

The current Ares V booster rocket being built was deliberately designed with the needs of a manned Mars mission in mind.

That's true, but for Bush all he wanted was to be reelected. You notice how since then there is less and less money available and the time frame for the Mars mission has been moved further into the future?

Well..even less money now due to the bail out that both parties forced on us...at this rate they'd be lucky to fund a rubberband airplane to cross the pond..

Rob