In "The Martian," Matt
Damon plays a Nasa space traveler who's been stranded on Mars and makes sense
of how to get by until the space organization can devise a challenging
arrangement to protect him.
Yet, Earth's initially kept an eye
on the mission to Mars will share little similarity to the hit film - also the
book it depends on, as indicated by writer Andy Weir and top Nasa authorities.
In spite of winning approvals for
making "The Martian" as logically exact as could be expected under
the circumstances, Weir thinks the genuine article is liable to include a
littler part for Nasa and a greater part for robots, 3D printing and private
spaceflight organizations.
"It won't look anything like it
looked in the motion picture," he said about "Transformers," an
occasion facilitated by The Washington Post Wednesday.
It may astound you to hear that Nasa
totally concur.
"Andy. . . He's completely
right. " said Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden. "In the event that
you take a gander at what Nasa's doing today, a major a portion of my life is
spent developing worldwide accomplices, paying special mind to what we call
non-customary accomplices, nations that need to be a part of the space
program."
A real human mission to Mars, as per
Bolden and Weir, will include significantly a greater amount of these
performing artists. It won't be just Nasa sending a group to the red planet;
rather, it'll be a multi-national coalition of governments and partnerships.
When we're prepared for a kept an eye on the mission, this gathering will be as
of now have set up some framework in low-earth circle intended to bolster
interplanetary travel.
Since it's exorbitant and hard to
sufficiently fit supplies for a mission onto a solitary spaceship dispatched
from Earth itself, it'll be a ton less demanding and less expensive on the off
chance that we can amass all the vital gear from an organizing point in space,
maybe in low circle around the Earth, before terminating the entire bundle off
to Mars. This is the location privately owned businesses like SpaceX become
possibly the most important factor.
"In the event that I were ruler
of Nasa," said Weir, "in the event that I could simply make orders
and have things go how I would have preferred, I would focus on business space
side - get however much of my cash into the business side as could reasonably
be expected, in light of the fact that they will rapidly drive down the cost to
[low-earth orbit], and that makes the cislunar-and Mars-related missions
moderate."
At this moment, it costs countless
dollars to put even a solitary kilogram of payload into space. However, in the
event that opposition for business space dispatches can drive costs down to the
level of customary air sending. That figure may drop to under $50 per kilogram,
said Weir.
Here's another significant way we
initially kept an eye on Mars missions will contrast from Weir's book. Rather
than landing straightforwardly on the planet, space travelers will likely start
by circling Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos. From that point, the general
population will have the ability to control a cluster of wanderers continuously
- which would be an immense change. As of now, the separation amongst Earth and
Mars means it's exclusive conceivable to control murderers with a period delay;
it takes hours to transmit guidelines to our Martian landers, despite the fact
that those signs go at light speed.
All things considered, Nasa does
eventually intend to send individuals to Mars itself. The organization is as of
now bustling investigating conceivable landing destinations, said Bolden, with
the key measure for everyone being the probability of discovering water there.
What's more, when that happens,
there is all part of "The Martian" that will presumably play out, in
actuality, generally as it did in fiction. For reasons unknown dropping
supplies on the planet much sooner than the people ever arrive makes a
considerable measure of financial sense. Propelled robots - some may be
humanoid, Bolden conjectures - could 3D print and collect the natural
surroundings and other hardware that individuals would require on Mars. From
looking over the planet early to set up the nearby environment for human
guests, these "forerunner" missions will be pivotal for the fate of
Mars investigation, as indicated by Bolden.
"We've been placed on Mars for
a long time," he said. "We didn't simply result in these present
circumstances rodeo."
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