MARS [NEW!!!] Constellation : Manned Mission to Mars

[Claytonymor]

I would just like to point out that launching the Ares V's alone would boost more that 2.5 million pounds into LEO... that's more than twice the mass of the ISS and the ISS cost over 100 billion dollars! This means that this would have to take place over more that 5 years even if NASA used their WHOLE BUDGET to pay for it! My guess is any attempt like this would require international cooperation on a new level. In more ways than one, going to Mars like this will not be feasible.

[serpentphoenix]

We need to ressurect the SEA DRAGON rocket concept. I think its the only realistic way to have a Mars Mission on the "cheap".

[JRhalo14]

you know if we are going to spend the time and money to go to mars and for the ammount of time they would have to spend there they might as well send over something to start the process of terraforming...

[serpentphoenix]

@JRhalo14 , show us some numbers.The cost of terraforming is far more vast than a manned mission. Your statement is bs.

[JRhalo14]

@serpentphoenix im talking about killing two birds with one stone, if nasa builds a simple reactor to use the methane in the mars atmosphere, burn it , then that heats up the planet releasing co2 setting off the chain reaction terraforming the planet. plus the astronauts could use the power made by the reactor. unless you like the idea of nuking the planet i think this is the best way to go

[AntiMatter3000]

get rid of chemical rockets... they are only short term.

[serpentphoenix]

can we hope? can we dream? can this one day be real?

[BeanShip]

@ACTAism I can't tell if you're trolling or serious haha

[louielouie11224]

@BeanShip You can never tell, some people really are stupid.

[ACTAism]

I prefer to have clothes, mercedes, house and food such as every one on this planet, as to spent billions of dollars on space canned engines hahaha. I think humans are completly stupid in their actions. It was always and always will be.

[ACTAism]

Unbelievable how many that will cost, and how many tasks to accomplished are presented. That means only one there are so many things that would go wrong. And if this is the modern NASA Space vehicles its too sad for the mankind, how unadvanced and pitty are we in our development.It makes me laugh.

[XxJJxX13]

That was possibly the best space related animation I have ever seen.

[stepitup89]

we shouldent be focusing on planets which appear dead and move onto planets that can sustain life i so wana be involved with this shit its unreal

[juki0h]

@stepitup89 easier said than done. do you have any idea how far a livable planet is? lol

[greekfitercod4ever]

normally while entering mars atmosphere the vehicles shouldn't get ''burned'' as shown in the video

[xxlinaley]

So is this going to happen? or did the liberals destroy it?

[kingkongzilla34]

@xxlinaley if anyone's going to prevent space exploration, it'll be the republicans

[cancer257]

LOL gayass music

[piplupsingularity]

@cancer257

How is this music "gayass"? I think it's epic.

[Gmail8589934591]

Gosh so many launches? This would cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Though definitely worth it.

[NMPros]

Thermo nuclear rockets are the way to go. Although currently like plasma (unstable and very hot), special ceramics with "aluminum" coatings may survive the pressures. It only makes sense. Hundreds of terawatts of pure energy from molecules of radioactive materials, some even from nuclear waste. Instead of storing it underground to let earth synthesize it, we can do it ourselves and put forth nuclear tech (safely). There could always be supermagnets to keep radiation away from people also...

[stevenwh99]

Nice video! Why are we only seeing this now, long after the President had to cancel the so called Ares I and Ares V moon rockets? Can you post an HD version?

[sixtysam66]

Excellent video and yes we can go to mars today we have the technology and the consumables... But the will power of America and all other nations is so low right now. The mars 500 which just ended nov. 4th of last year proved to show that people can last 520 days in a dark enclosed area. The day I see the world mark their ground on mars will be very emotional and content. Just think we go from creating fire to sending humans millions of miles across space onto another planet. If only we can o

[Eagle1Division2]

Classic bureaucracy... HUGE departing fleet, only a tiny capsule returns. Most expensive, unnecessarily complicated mission possible. It's just another step down from the 90-day report. They're still not going to Mars. They're just spending as much money as possible.

Ex: Why use ISRU for MAV, but not use it for ERV? A propulsive AND aero return to Earth? TWO habs AND a MAV? It's like they made it as complicated as possible. That's not how we got to the moon.

SpaceX can do better than that.

[0nlyHuman1]

@Eagle1Division2

ISRU use for the MAV because that's where most of the delta-V (and hence fuel/mass) is required if you leave your ERV in a highly elliptical orbit. and I agree, this is an over complicated version of Mars Semi-Direct, SpaceX definently could do it better :P

[Eagle1Division2]

@energyscience Where is this music from!? More importantly, where can I get it!? :O :D

[RRM22]

Never in the history of the internet has there been a soundtrack featuring more win.

[1yamahafz]

If only we had used the money we spent on the Iraq War to fund space exploration..........

[Joe35983]

@1yamahafz Agreed

[MrGuigui2003]

Cool !!!

[BricktownBubba]

The technology to go to Mars existed in the 70's. If we hadn't ended the Apollo program Apollo 28 would have been to mars in 1979.

[launchsquid]

@BricktownBubba true. the question that isn't asked is, what is the actual objective of a manned mission to mars? if it is just to get people there and back then the apollo tech was capable of it as many nasa studies have shown. If it is to stay for a year or more, doing lots of science (carrying all the weight of the equipment and life support from earth to mars and a lot of it back), then apollo was no way near it. when this happens it will be a hell of an adventure.

[nickyp28]

@BricktownBubba I wouldn't say so. To go to Mars you need to make life support systems that are up to the task, you need to gain more experience of long duration spaceflight, you need to find a way to prevent the fatal inter-planetary radiation getting to the crew over such a long period, you need a lot of other things too! The ISS is just the start of this process.

[Eagle1Division2]

@nickyp28 Yeah, and to go to the moon, in 1950, we had to make orbit-capable rockets, put something in orbit, make spaceships for the first time, put people in space, then orbit, do orbit rendevouz for the first time, etc. etc.

We did it in 10 years.

And what you're talking about, isn't half as important as those Apollo steps. We can go to Mars now, we don't need to waste time doing those other things.

[lamorte42]

There's too many launches in my opinion. They can do the mission with two or three launched with the Mars Direct plan.

[ateffii]

practically things might change by the year 2030. technology might be more advanced, and we might even reach or get closer to the speed of light

[launchsquid]

@ateffii it will take a dramatic invention to achieve this, nasa studies have shown that if we were to reach the speed of light using chemical rockets we would need more fuel than all the matter in the universe. even ion engines are not even a fraction of what is needed. someone will have to invent something so much more powerful and fuel efficient to even have a chance, and i haven't mentioned the road blocks einstien said we'd need to account for.

[pureawesomeness2012]

@launchsquid ANTIMATTERMAN TO THE RESCUE!

[juki0h]

@ateffii nano tubes will allow us to live forever too, this will allow us to see space exploration come to light. pehaps you and i will be able to explore the galaxy, because we'll be immortal! MUAHAHA!

[kalif3000]

what is wrong with using Mars Direct or Mars Semi-Direct instead of that DRM 5.0? it certainly looks more expensive that DIrect...

[mrplease66]

if only...

[President1681]

too bad were not gonna see this in a 5 more years

[iaadsi]

@President1681 you left out a zero in there somewhere... unfortunately

[piplupsingularity]

NTR = Nuclear Thermal Rocket

[Kapitananime]

LETS GO!

[serpentphoenix]

This is awesome!