Moon Landing

[BlueBearBoots]

how long will it take for a manned spaceship to get to mars?

 

[aguero93:20]

You have to really asses the mental state of people that want to go live and die on Mars. Just craziness

NASA are screening of course. 200,000 applicants, down to 1,000 potential candidates.

I just cant believe people would practically condemn themselves to an early death to go to a dusty red planet..
Then again if people didn't do this sort of thing we would be a very isolated world, people dared once to sail off the edge of the earth to see what would happen

I'd go tbh.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

We have had a lot of technological advances, but our Engines are still severely lacking.

I think its more to do with what the human body can take and fuel rather than the delivery systems. We have scramjets that can Mach5 in earths gravity, Human body just cannot take that sort of punishment

 

[Skashion]

We have had a lot of technological advances, but our Engines are still severely lacking.

Not for sending things piecemeal and establishing a colony. We lack the ability to bring people back from Mars because we can't send anything heavy enough to generate enough thrust to propel itself off the surface of Mars and back to Earth, but sending things to Mars and leaving it there, we can do that already as we already do. There are other issues to be resolved but sending men to Mars and leaving there, we can do that.

-- Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:45 pm --

how long will it take for a manned spaceship to get to mars?

NASA say twenty years. Or do you mean how long, as in how long will the astronauts be travelling?