When
and whether we go to mars depends on technology, money and what we consider an
acceptable risk
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Manhattan
project or the Apollo program “we’re closer to mars
in terms of the technology required to do it today then we were to the moon
when president Kennedy set that goals in 1961. We are far closer.
We
aren’t closer to paying for a mars trip, though and it’s the
expense that killed the grand plants of the past.The Apollo moon landings cost
about $140 billion in today’s dollars. Exprets assume a realistic journey to
mars would cost at least that much : a fully loaded plan put forward under
president George H.W Bush had a price tag of $450 billion. But NASA’s annual
budget for all human spaceflight is around nine billion dollars. To get mars
before 2040s would take a lot of money and a president with Kennedy like
commitment. During the moon race with the sovier Union. NASA got more than 4
percent of the federal budget: now it gets about half a percent. If there were
a truly a “ Mars race” with China, say, that might help, but the chinnese don’t
apprear in a rush to get there.
When and whether
we go to mars doesn’t just depend
on technology and money. It depends on what we consider of an acceptable level
of risk. Advocates of an early landing say that NASA is too risk averse,
that true explores accept the possibility of failure or death, that the people
who first tried to reach the poles or cross the oceans knew they might not make
it and often didn’t. NASA could send people to mars a lot sooner if it didn’t
worry so much about whether tey’s arrive alive and eventually make it home.
At the end of Gerstenmaier’s news conference in
Utah, a local reporter stood up. He was 49 years old, he said, and he just want to know one thing : would he
live to see a man on mars ?
“ yes ‘” Gersteinmaier said. He Hesitated for a moment and then
added: “’man’ may be the wrong word . You
will see a Human Being.”
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We
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closer to mars in terms of the
technology
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We
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were
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to the moon
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We
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are
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far closer
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We
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aren’t
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closer to paying for a mars trip
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The Apollo moon
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landings
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cost about $140 billion in today’s
dollars
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NASA
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got
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more than 4 percent of the federal
budget
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the chinnese
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don’t
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appear
in a rush to get there.
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we
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go
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to mars doesn’t just depend on
technology and money.
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we
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consider
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of an acceptable level of risk
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NASA
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could
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send people to mars a lot sooner
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it
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didn’t
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worry so much about whether they’s
arrive alive and eventually make it home
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He
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was
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49 years old
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he
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Said
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and he just want to know one thing
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You
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will see
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a Human Being
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