Mars One The Plan.
I am not the space pioneer I always wanted to be, but I do remember when I really became interested in space, and science fiction. I don't remember the name of the shop, but it wasn't far from where we lived. The shop window I had passed, must have been a “pulp”, bookshop, as the window was filled with amazing books who's covers depicted the most fantastic scenes, but the one that attracted my eyes most was the classical “Robot carrying the beautiful woman in it's blue metallic arms."
I must have been about 9 or 10 at the time, and was highly “impressed”, I can tell you! Then came the “Space Race”, and I imagined how it would be to “blast off into space”, as a child of the fifties, all this seemed possible.
Recently, there has been talk of a project to send a small group of people to Mars, some of whom have already been shortlisted, and although the prospects of the mission actually “taking off”, within the time frame of 2014 are very small, it is probably a good indicator of how industry might ultimately pass NASA by.
Today, I'm not so sure how humans, can, or want to adapt to space, furthermore, the fact that people born on Mars, would never be able to return to Earth. Ultimately humankind will, I suppose, get to the planets, but for me it would have to be a pleasant green Mars, and I recall the lines of Rhysling, the Blind Singer of the Spaceways......
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
Robert Heinlein.
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I am not the space pioneer I always wanted to be, but I do remember when I really became interested in space, and science fiction. I don't remember the name of the shop, but it wasn't far from where we lived. The shop window I had passed, must have been a “pulp”, bookshop, as the window was filled with amazing books who's covers depicted the most fantastic scenes, but the one that attracted my eyes most was the classical “Robot carrying the beautiful woman in it's blue metallic arms."
I must have been about 9 or 10 at the time, and was highly “impressed”, I can tell you! Then came the “Space Race”, and I imagined how it would be to “blast off into space”, as a child of the fifties, all this seemed possible.
Recently, there has been talk of a project to send a small group of people to Mars, some of whom have already been shortlisted, and although the prospects of the mission actually “taking off”, within the time frame of 2014 are very small, it is probably a good indicator of how industry might ultimately pass NASA by.
Today, I'm not so sure how humans, can, or want to adapt to space, furthermore, the fact that people born on Mars, would never be able to return to Earth. Ultimately humankind will, I suppose, get to the planets, but for me it would have to be a pleasant green Mars, and I recall the lines of Rhysling, the Blind Singer of the Spaceways......
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
Robert Heinlein.
http://ift.tt/1FEr2lY
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