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Originally Posted by PHC1
Mars will be a serious challenge with conventional space flight and two to three years in space. If they can’t keep multimillion dollar satellites from failing due to solar storms near earth, a human body is toast in a few years time in open space.
They will just have to learn to bend and warp that space-time to get to places.  |
Franklin Chang Díaz is a pioneer. As a child, he dreamed of going into space. As an adult, he made his wish come true. Diaz was the first naturalized U.S. citizen from Latin America to become an astronaut. After making seven trips into space, the MIT-educated Díaz retired from NASA and set his sights on speeding up the journey to Mars. A trip using chemical-powered rockets takes nine months—Díaz has developed a plasma-propelled engine that he says will cut the journey down to just over one month. We visit Ad Astra Rocket Company in Webster, Texas, to see the project Díaz has been working on for 40 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBVs9ZwA-Q