Poll Mars To Stay

[DanM]

I was wondering if anyone on here would actually be willing to go on a one way Mars mission. Though I do think we'll eventually have to colonize it, I don't believe that a one way mission is the way to start. We'll need to return samples along with the crew. One idea that I think is good is a Vasmir engine. I read about it in Popular Science, Franklin Chang Diaz is trying to build one.

 

[Ark]

Where do I sign?

 

[jedidia]

I got family...

 

[RisingFury]

One idea that I think is good is a Vasmir engine. I read about it in Popular Science, Franklin Chang Diaz is trying to build one.

Which would require a *very* light and powerful nuclear reactor, so it doesn't kill all the payload mass and advantages it brings...

 

[Izack]

I don't understand why the crew needs to be returned for any reason other than publicity unless they have family there. Mars to Stay proposed sending married couples, and giving them the opportunity to return to Earth for retirement (assuming the Martian would be able to live in Earth's gravity after so long in 1/3 g.)

Any experiments for the reactions of the body to Martian gravity can be done on Mars; no point in taking them back to Earth just for physicals and blood tests.

 

[T.Neo]

No, I would not take part in a Mars to Die mission. I have family, friends (neither of which I like very much- just kidding! ), a home and a heritage, and a life support system based around the billions of organisms all around me.

I don't want to live out my last days with four or five people who I really dislike, in a pneumatic tent breathing air out of a tin.

Maybe if Mars was a developed planet, but it isn't, so no.

 

[IgnoreThisBarrel]

I would only if I could come back to Earth.

>.>

 

[Xyon]

Wait... Mars to Stay? Isn't this basically "Well, we'd like to send people to Mars, but we can't yet work out how to get them home... I KNOW LET'S JUST NOT BOTHER"?

 

[IgnoreThisBarrel]

Just wonder what would have happened if the Apollo missions were only designed to put a man on the Moon but NOT bring him back.

 

[Xyon]

Ever see "From the Earth To The Moon"? That was proposed in the series (Not sure if it actually was in reality, it seems farfetched).

 

[T.Neo]

I don't think they would have been well recieved both by the US public and the international community...

 

[Wishbone]

These suggestions surface every 10 years or so. Please, don't deprive humans of human society...

Re: Apollo. This stuff was real. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/ch3-2.html (E.J.Daniels from Lockheed)

 

[DanM]

Of course, we could turn Mars into a penal colony like Australia. Not Really. I don't want to let criminals live the dreams of so many decent people. Even if the good people would return and the criminals don't.

 

[IgnoreThisBarrel]

At least there'd be no crime on Mars...

EDIT: Wow, I posted this before I knew DanM posted, and now this posts seems a tad ironic

 

[garyw]

Ever see "From the Earth To The Moon"? That was proposed in the series (Not sure if it actually was in reality, it seems farfetched).

That scene was based on a real idea that was presented to NASA and to which NASA ignored.

Many feared, however, that Gemini, like Mercury, would be upstaged. Though the Soviets remained cagey about their space plans, it was widely assumed that their apparent lead in powerful booster rockets would permit them to launch a man to the moon and return him to Earth in about 1965.

Against this backdrop, John M. Cord, a Project Engineer in the Advanced Design Division at Bell Aerosystems Company, and Leonard M. Seale, a psychologist in charge of Bell's Human Factors Division, developed a plan for a desperate mission to put a man on the moon ahead of the Soviets. They unveiled their "One-Way Manned Space Mission" proposal in Los Angeles at the Institute of Aerospace Sciences (IAS) meeting in July 1962.

Source: http://beyondapollo.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-way-space-man-1962.html

 

[Wishbone]

The idea was first surfaced in July 1961 (from the Chariots for Apollo):

Another approach was the proposal to send a spacecraft on a one-way trip to the moon. In this concept, the astronaut would be deliberately stranded on the lunar surface and resupplied by rockets shot at him for, conceivably, several years until the space agency developed the capability to bring him back! At the end of July 1961, E. J. Daniels from Lockheed Aircraft Corporation met with Paul Purser, Technical Assistant to Robert Gilruth, to discuss a possible study contract on this mode. Purser referred Daniels to NASA Headquarters.

 

[jinglesassy]

You mean like in the series The lonely astronaut?

 

[Turbinator]

I would definitely volunteer for a one way Mars mission.
I would have absolutely no problem with dying on Mars.

 

[statickid]

It's hardly comparable...but I spent a week alone in the Kelso dunes in the mojave desert because I had some time on my hands. I found myself really enjoying it but I only brought enough water for a week+emergency. When it was time to go I was really reluctant to leave and felt very at home there. Driving back I almost felt spiteful to see so many plants and other people. I imagine that if given the chance I would be very happy to take a one way trip to mars as long as I knew I had the means to set up a permanent dwelling so long as I went either before I got married or if my wife could come with me but I don't think she would be interested.

I took these pictures there, the ones of myself i took with a tripod, so they are a little contrived :lol:

 

[OrbiterSpore]

my opinion of going to mars? well, if you don't will take some glass domes and/or habitat modules this mission will be very hard, especially at the part to STAYING there.