| Bofferbrauer2 said: Not before the 2030's. The problem is not just the rocket to get there, |
It is precisely this problem to start with. Using today's rocket designs, any astronaut would pick up about half a deadly dose of radiation. So you get rather sick people on Mars, right from the start.This makes a return flight completely fictious, as any astronauts would be dead once back.
Then on Mars, lacking a magnetic field, the astronauts would have to dig in, really deep (either vertically into the ground or horinzontally if there is a mountain around). Forget Matt Damon growing potatoes, it's just a movie..
So what would be the point of this exercise? You kill astronauts, with absolute certainty, just to yell "First"? What about advanced robotics? That is a far better solution.
