Millionaire wants to send humans to Mars and bring them back in 2018

 

Some experts say that in a few decades someone send a manned spacecraft to Mars and humans may their mark on the red planet. However, it is possible that this historic feat and technological forward as they say there, next to the corner, in 2018. Behind this project is Dennis Tito , an American billionaire who became one of the world's first space tourists around the year 2001. Now is willing to contribute money to found what he called the 'Mars Foundation, an organization whose main objective is to send two people to Mars on a mission that would last more than 500 days of travel and culminating in just 5 years from today.

The election of 2018 is not merely technical issues, this year is that Mars has a favorable alignment with Earth to begin a space trip of this nature. If this opportunity is lost in that year would have to wait until 2031.

The astronauts would be sent on a spacecraft to Mars where they would spend a few hours before returning, but not long enough to leave a mark on the planet, take samples and make your way back.

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The next Mars Curiosity depart in 2020

The 2012 has been a busy year for NASA. Curiosity, the rover sent to Mars, has proved very successful. So successful in fact that NASA has plans to send a new Curiosity to Mars in 2020.
The 2020 mission to Mars will have the same objectives as the current-testing of samples of Martian soil. Obviously the difference between the current and future Curiosity is 8 years of technological advancement, which will develop more advanced tools. Of course we also continue the search for life on Mars, and this time seems to focus a little more on this topic.
The project has been awarded $ 1,500 million as funds, which is $ 1 billion less than it had the original project, but not surprising since much of the project's Curiosity current can be reused, which obviously reduces costs.
After that the next step is to send humans in 2030.

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NASA announced the findings of Curiosity

Today Monday, authorities and NASA researchers will give a press conference to announce the findings of Curiosity and give a general update on what the little robot on Mars has been doing in recent months.
While rumors suggest otherwise, the conference will not talk about anything really extraordinary as it was believed at the time .
Representatives from NASA's JPL rumors say that it has become a very important discovery on Mars early in the mission are not true.
According to several reports, Curiosity, or rather, one of his tools, called SAM, would have detected signs of life in a soil sample from the planet, but the JPL states that no evidence has been found of the existence of Martian organisms yet.
What do you think will be announced at noon today at the conference in San Francisco?

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Angry Birds Red Planet Space

 

What did you find after arrival Curiosity to Mars? Rovio has teamed up with NASA to launch a special episode of Angry Birds Space to be titled Red Planet, and will be based on the arrival of the Curiosity rover to Mars .
This episode will feature a total of 20 different scenarios developed on Mars.

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INTERACTIVE: See Mars in 360°

 

This is the last picture of Mars released by NASA in July 2012. It was assembled from images taken between December 2011 and May 2012, while Opportunity was parked at an outcrop informally named 'Greeley Haven'. in a segment of the rim of the old crater Endeavour.

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Elon Musk said that 12 or 15 years we will have colonies on Mars

 

Elon Musk, for those who do not know, is the cofounder of PayPal, SpaceX founder and Tesla Motors founder also, and some people consider it the real world Tony Stark. Leaving that aside, and going to what we want, Mr. Musk believes that in about 15 years will be possible to have colonies on Mars. Before the arrival of Curiosity to Mars in days past, it was estimated that these colonies would become a reality only in 30 years, but in a few days things have changed.
In their visions of Martian colonization, Musk hopes to send people to Mars in 15 years. And do not talk about scientists and astronauts, but people like you and me. Of course this requires a large sum of money estimated at $ 500,000, and it is likely that you, like me, do not be such an amount of money to invest in space travel.
Probably the first people (not astronauts) to set foot on Mars are sent by governments and corporations, or it could be some billionaire who wants to spend a couple of months in space as it reaches the red planet.

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NASA Morpheus is demonstrating its new landing system

 

While the arrival of Mars Curiosity is what else has been busy this month NASA, the agency has also been busy doing other things such as trying to Morpheus, the new landing system.
Morpheus is equipped with two key technologies for successful landings: a system that detects obstacles and a proponent of methane, which could not only be used during landings, but also during space travel, and also obtain methane appears to be a problem through fields of ice on the moon so much as on Mars. It is also estimated that every year, the International Space Station and discarded much methane produced to fill the tank of Morpheus.
The obstacle detection system is used to find a safe spot to land, without large rocks or cracks or anything like that.

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