Is the space race back? This time the direction - settlement of our cosmic neighbors
The Voice of Russia website cites the newspaper Izvestia, according to which in 2030 Russia will start establishing a colony on the moon. The newspaper received a design draft of the Russian lunar program developed by the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University. According to the plan, Russia wants to "create an experimental site on the moon and a base for the exploitation of natural resources."
Deputy Minister of the Interior, Dimitri Rogozin, said in an article published about a month ago (April 11) in the Russian Rossiya Gazeta newspaper that Russia's strategic goals in space exploration are related to a more extensive presence in the Sebi orbit on Earth, the settlement of the Moon and the launch of manned spacecraft to Mars and other objects in the solar system.
"The authors of the proposal do not rule out attracting private investors to the moon project when the first expedition of cosmonauts will land on the moon in 2030 with the aim of creating a permanent base. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the moon dynamically and the authors of the project recommend that the major powers explore the moon and mark areas on its surface that can be exploited for practical use in the next 20-30 years.
NASA plans to build greenhouses on Mars in 2021
NASA also wants to colonize space, but for now not with humans but with plants. NASA wants to install small greenhouses on Mars that will be flown on the next spacecraft to be built and which will land on Mars in 2021.
An experiment in growing plants is a first step before establishing a manned colony on Mars.
The experiment - Plant Experiment (MPX) will be one that can finance itself. It will be sealed to the Martian atmosphere to prevent the escape of plants - which are known to be living creatures - to the Martian soil.
"To establish a long-term manned colony that will sustain itself on Mars it is necessary to prove that plants can at least grow on Mars." said MPX Project Deputy Principal Investigator Heather Smith from NASA's Ames Center at the Humans 2 Mars conference held at the end of April in Washington. "This may be the first step. We will send seeds and see them grow."
The MPX experiment will be placed inside a box of a tiny satellite (cubesat) on the outside of the vehicle that will be launched in 2020. The box will contain an earthly atmosphere and about 200 plants of Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant that is commonly used in scientific research. "Within 15 days we will have a small greenhouse on Mars" said Smith.
The experiment will be required to deal with the strong radiation levels and the low gravity of Mars (about 40% of that of Earth. "We will start with a small experiment and finally reach a self-sustaining base. If the experiment is indeed successful, this plant will be the first multicellular creature to grow, live and finally die on the planet Other."
The 2020 rover will be based on Curiosity, which discovered shortly after landing in August 2012 that Mars is capable of supporting bacterial life. The vehicle will search for clues to past life on Mars and collect rocks and soil samples that will be returned to Earth. The final selection of the equipment for this vehicle will be made in June 2014.
The Russians plan to start colonizing the moon in 2030
NASA plans to establish greenhouses on Mars in 2021
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Kobi
How long will we wait for there to be oxygen there - half a billion years?
You can start by bombarding Mars with germs, it's cheap, fast, and effective, a start to changing the atmosphere in favor of future settlement.
Instead of wasting time looking for a life.
The tension between Russia and America is structural. Because they compete for the marketing of the same products (energy and weapons). America has a fantasy that Europe will buy (expensive) liquefied gas, only because they are afraid of Russia.
Miracles
And if I explain to him, will it help? I published a series of articles about the collapse of the USSR. They are found in the journals "Mafna" and "Hauma". A little more than 15 years ago
Life
It is worth reminding the commenter that the Cold War killed the USSR (so they say). She also wasted huge sums that are hard to imagine. The world of the average person did not benefit from the arms race. Even the Internet, whose development is attributed to the arms race, only emerged after the end of the Cold War.
Miracles
The difference between me and you is purely semantic. My argument is with a commenter who boldly and with great fanfare demonstrates a lack of proficiency and understanding in history and political science and is even proud of it. How do you say? May he be healthy.
Life
The disagreement between us is in the details, which have no effect on the issue. I don't think the Americans had a direct influence on the wars in Israel.
But - I completely agree that the Cold War caused the killing of hundreds of thousands and maybe millions.
To think that a cold war is a positive thing is a terrible thought. I don't think there is an intelligent person who disagrees with that.
reagent
There were two wars in Afghanistan, one by the Russians that was still during the Cold War and one by the Americans that was after the Cold War.. So that I can learn a little about your knowledge of modern history, please recommend at least one book that you have read on the subject and give me at least one link on the Internet so that I can check the bibliographic sources.
reagent
The Cold War is called cold because the two superpowers did not fight each other. They knew that such a war could slide into a nuclear conflict and the results are clear. That is why this war was called cold. The solution they took was to confront each other through proxy states and thus acquire areas of influence. And what wars these were. In Vietnam alone the Americans had 50,000 dead. And yet I repeat that your historical understanding and knowledge is lacking. You don't like it, read a number of books on the subject, there are plenty of them, including in English, including those by Henry Kissinger, who is the number one authority in the world on this subject, and that's the end of my argument with you.
Cheers - don't mix up the Korea/Vietnam war between the Afghanistan war and what the world calls THE COLD WAR.
Shame on the State of Israel, reserved for history, don't know why the Cold War is called the "Cold War".
If I were your history or language teacher, you would get failed in both.
Miracles
Regarding the War of Independence and the Second Lebanon War, I agree with you. Regarding the other wars, I categorically disagree with you. The USA was arming one side and the USSR was arming the other side. Thus the two powers acquired areas of influence without fighting each other. Even if many died due to famine and epidemics, the rest of the dead are the result of these wars and are in the millions. Hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in these wars. If these wars had not broken out, it is likely that the money would have been invested in the war against poverty and epidemics. No matter how you look at the wars, you would see that the effect of these wars on the economy of other countries and on social aspects was very dominant. Failure to provide health services and means to fight epidemics was also part of the Cold War. What to do and cynicism is part of real politics from the school of Machiavelli and Kissinger. Look at it in a historical and political science perspective. This is the academic professional.
Life
Well done, it seems to me that saying all these wars are a direct result of the Cold War is beside the point.
It is true that the Korean, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars are "sponsored" by the Cold War. But this is not the case, in my opinion, with regard to Israel's wars, for example. The War of Liberation was at the very beginning of the Cold War, before the US had influence in the area, and the Second Lebanon War was 15 years after the end of the Cold War.
I certainly agree that the cold war had many victims. Most of these victims (I think) are not killed in combat at all, but victims of hunger, disease, mikush and other shameful things.
reagent
You are wrong in a big way. Yes there were deaths and wars. The war between South Korea and North Korea with strong American involvement. The war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam also with strong American involvement in which the Americans lost 50,000 soldiers. The Americans were also in Laos and Cambodia. The war in Pakistan that led to its division, the western part was named Pakistan and the eastern part was named Bangladesh. In Nigeria, the province of Biafra tried to secede from Nigeria. There were also tens of thousands of dead. By the way, what do the names General Wesmoreland and General Ogo'ko mean to you? In general, all African countries were saturated with wars, the wars of the State of Israel against the Arab countries. The war between the USA and the USSR was through proxy states (a concept in political science). I remember these wars. To your credit, you don't know 20th century history. If you were my history student you would get a failing grade.
Cheers - what does your response have to do with it? In the Cold War, no one died and no one fought. In the Cold War there was an arms race and a technological race and a space race. Humanity advanced in giant strides during the Cold War - for example, the Internet!
The reason we haven't reached space yet is precisely because the Cold War is over and the US has no incentive because it felt it had no competitor.
To an anonymous (unidentified) user, it has been proven many times that the extremists set the tone and lead even when they are a minority.
to the skeptic.
By and large, you're right, I don't think the Russians will succeed on their own because of the conditions you mentioned. On the other hand, on the moon
There are various minerals from which water and oxygen can be extracted and also minerals that are viable (even if limited)
Economically - which somewhat balances the picture and can bring many civilian investors into the story.
It seems that there will also be greenhouses on the moon and they will start already at the end of 2015, at the time of Google's competition to send a car to the moon:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/cct/office/cif/2013/lunar_plant.html
To the Matrix, sometimes Arabs convert. But Jewish society does not wait for them.
And with Arabya you will convert, she is really in danger of her life.
For the Matrix, Islam is not a theological success. These are for demographic growth (the population is conservative and traditional). The violence and terrorism of elements that are supposedly the representatives of the religion. They teach about pressure and panic, because of modernity and the equality of women. When Saudi Arabia runs out of money, the financing of terrorism will stop.
None of this will happen if the world does not come to its senses and prevent the spread of Islam, otherwise the whole world will return to the stone age.
skeptic
As for the source of the drive you can't tell. Tomorrow someone can come with a technological breakthrough and everything changes. Examples:
At the end of the 19th century Lord Kelvin said that everything in physics is known and here came the theory of relativity and the quantum theory. In 1903 an American pastor said that no body heavier than air can fly and in the same year the Wright brothers. Fly the first plane. What you say is true, but based on the current knowledge, no more. So don't jump to such sweeping conclusions.
The Russian ideas as ideas do not have the financial ability to realize them,
The only "colony" that humanity has managed to build outside of Earth is the International Space Station
And it is only a few hundred kilometers above the head with an extremely limited number of people and it costs a huge fortune,
These are important first steps in the study of existence in the harsh space environment and also a host of other studies,
But right now from an economic point of view what is beyond that is too big for the economies of humanity in their current state,
So, if there is no change in propulsion or the means of going into space from the earth, it will probably remain in the coming decades as a field that belongs to graphic artists and animators and not a field that is associated with the practical world,
The mini greenhouses is something that can be practical and is within the economic capacity of the USA,
In conclusion, in order for dreams to become actions, they need to overcome a much more difficult problem
from the hostile environment of space and it is the financial problem,
The drive (Earth output)
And existence in space takes too many resources than humanity is willing/able to budget for existence
So we remain only a few hundred kilometers above the earth,
And from reading on the various science websites about the state of development, especially in the field of space propulsion
Unfortunately, we are learning that this reality will probably remain this way for decades.
reagent
Perhaps his honor sitting at the heights of political science, at least I hope so, will explain what the connection is between the invasion that was or was not into Ukraine and space exploration.. Although Putin still lives in terms of the days of the Cold War, he is not stupid. He will not go to a war where they also shoot. He is aware of the price that such a war will exact from Russia and most likely if he takes such a step he will also pay personally. To be precise, what the Russians did is a kind of semi-invasion. Leave it to you to learn from Hans Morgenthau, Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger. I hope you know what their academic major was.
Well, the Cold War has returned to the world and the space race has heated up. It's amazing that all it took for the powers to focus on space again was a Russian invasion of Ukraine...
The ability of the Russians is quite impressive (at least in my opinion). But it seems a little pretentious. Corruption and political pressure will make it difficult for them. And the American idea is simply beautiful. If the Russians manage to land a man on the moon, and return him safely, then this will give a boost and many investments in the field (Chinese, and Americans).