The newest project between National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is creating a sensation. The onus of the project is designing and ultimately building a spacecraft that will take individuals and enough supplies and equipment to Mars. It’s called the Hundred Year Starship, however the journey would be a bit different from the moon landings. The difference is type of significant. The hitch is the astronauts on this mission won’t come back.

Visiting Mars with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA

Pete Worden, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, brought news at the Long Conversation Conference in San Francisco. He said that National Aeronautics and Space Administration and DARPA are working together on a project. The Telegraph reports that the project is called the 100 Year Starship. The govt agencies have asked for help from any person who can give it to them. The world’s billionaires are being solicited for donations, including Larry Page, co-founder of Google. An original design could be available next year. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Challenge, which was an endurance race for self-driving cars, had been much more concrete than this project. Getting astronauts and cargo to Mars is the challenge being worked on with the project. This project is different than the international Space Station and Apollo 11. The astronauts will not be coming back from Mars.

One way ticket

It is hard for making a ferry between Earth and other planets because of the distance. A journey to Mars would take nine months to complete. Becoming self enough is the plan for those who go there. That’s what they will have to learn to do. NASA has $1 million to spend, but it’s envisioned the project would cost at least $10 billion to pull off. Based on Fox News, there is a lot of fuel to move equipment into space. Four pounds of fuel per one pound of equipment is needed. It could be nearly extremely hard for making a return journey since getting to Mars is already a difficult one.

Colonizing on Mars

Mars is the next good undertaking in space exploration, and colonizing other planets is maybe next on the list. The plan would involve getting astronauts to live on Mars. This would lead them to be there permanently. They would have to adjust to living on the Red Planet. This planet, at some point, will die. Mankind, if it’s to survive, must find a way to live someplace else.

Details from

The Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8091965/Nasa-unveils-bold-plans-to-send-humans-one-way-to-Mars-to-colonise-planet.html

Fox News

foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/29/nasa-cover-up-hundred-year-starship/print