Mission To Mars

You'd have to see the movie. The reason he takes off his helmet is because his cord broke of the spacecraft and his wife(another astronaut) went after him. He didn't want her to die trying to save him so he depressurised

The only feasible way of getting to mars is to use some sort of shuttle- vertical take off and landing isnt an option as a few guys have pointed out.
But even then, a shuttle needs a HUGE runway to land on... and im not sure mars has many of those.
So nope, i don't reckon we'll see a landing on Mars in this century, let alone by 2020 or whenever they were saying they'd do it.

BUT on the subject of this movie- it's actually quite good as a time waster, you just have to ignore the mistakes and treat it as a B-movie lol.

Lol, Mars's got an etremely thin atmosphere, and just half the gravity of earth: It is relatively easy to get off that red rock, vertically.

So, I´d like to discuss some aspects of the ship that will take humankind there.

First, it has to be re-entry capable. It has to be able to land AND take off vertically.

It could only land vertically, and take off on a runway, built by those who get there. But it seems too risky and far-fetched to me. What if for some reason they can´t built it? The machinery and materials... no, it won´t happen. It has to land and take off vertically.

Those scenes are totally flawed, on the physics aspect. Even a high-school kid can tell.

Seconded. Plus, it has a lot of flaws even a high-school physics student can notice.

They say NASA helped them. I wonder if they didnt. Spacecrafts made of wood, maybe...

Yeah NASA is filled with really smart people, I have trouble believing they would be dumb enough to attach themselves to this train wreck.

I am being really serious when I say that this whole movie is just completely stolen from 2001, but made 100x dumber.

Do you know what I hate the most? The artist´s conceptions and the dumb plans to go to mars.

All of the artists conceptions are exactly the same, or almost the same: a big rocket, a big habitat. It´s like the old conceptions of going to the moon.

Why aren´t we in Mars yet? One simple answer: because we don´t have the spaceship do go there.

You can´t use the "missile" approach here. You can´t put some guys in a capsule on top of a rocket, lauch them, then re-entry them.