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« on: September 01, 2020, 08:52:57 PM »

There were human missions to the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Maybe, there will be human missions to Mars in the next years (or decades)...
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« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2020, 11:44:53 PM »

The first person on Mars better be a disabled genderqueer Blatinx immigrant seeking status 
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2020, 12:01:47 AM »

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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2020, 08:41:13 AM »

I probably won't be around to see it, so meh.
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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2020, 09:07:48 AM »

on the 19th of Aug, 2042, the Carl Sagan will land on the surface of Mars with a crew of 7.  4 men (2 white, 1 black, 1 Hispanic) and 3 women (2 white, 1 Hispanic).
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« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2020, 09:23:10 AM »

I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.
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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2020, 10:29:53 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2020, 11:19:14 AM »

British man, employed by SpaceX.
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« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2020, 11:54:05 AM »

I think Matt Damon identifies as a white American man.
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« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2020, 01:07:24 PM »

Transgender Russian.
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« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2020, 07:14:06 PM »

I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.

If it is a mission conducted by the European Space Agency, might be an Austrian. He or she will put the blue flag with the circle of yellow stars and the red white red flat on the Mars surface.
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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2020, 07:29:57 PM »

A Chinese man is the most likely choice right now.
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« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2020, 11:41:19 PM »

I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.

If it is a mission conducted by the European Space Agency, might be an Austrian. He or she will put the blue flag with the circle of yellow stars and the red white red flag on the Mars surface.

The chances for that are very low because there is currently no Austronaut at ESA.

There are 3 Italians, 2 Germans, 1 French, 1 British and 1 Danish active astronauts.

The last new selection of astronauts was in 2009 though, so they might pick new ones soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Astronaut_Corps#Current_members

The last Austronaut was Franz Viehböck in the early 90s:

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« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2020, 11:44:05 PM »

I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.

If it is a mission conducted by the European Space Agency, might be an Austrian. He or she will put the blue flag with the circle of yellow stars and the red white red flag on the Mars surface.

The chances for that are very low because there is currently no Austronaut at ESA.

There are 3 Italians, 2 Germans, 1 French, 1 British and 1 Danish active astronauts.


A Mars landing is presumably far enough in the future that it'll probably be none of these people, so Austria still has a chance.
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« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2020, 03:52:00 AM »

I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.

If it is a mission conducted by the European Space Agency, might be an Austrian. He or she will put the blue flag with the circle of yellow stars and the red white red flag on the Mars surface.

The chances for that are very low because there is currently no Austronaut at ESA.

There are 3 Italians, 2 Germans, 1 French, 1 British and 1 Danish active astronauts.


A Mars landing is presumably far enough in the future that it'll probably be none of these people, so Austria still has a chance.


I can't see the ESA wasting money on a manned Mars mission. The only way a European is the first to set foot on Mars is if ey is part of a Mars colonization effort.

Right now China is the only country that potentially has both the capability and interest in a mission to send people to Mars and returning em.
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« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2020, 03:57:33 AM »

person who says "that's one small step for man........" because everyone will have run out of ideas by then.
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« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2020, 04:42:52 PM »

Since the possibility of life in Venus was dicovered, maybe there will be missions to Venus. But it is very hard to land a human being there. It is too hot!
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« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2020, 09:45:31 PM »

Since the possibility of life in Venus was dicovered, maybe there will be missions to Venus. But it is very hard to land a human being there. It is too hot!

A manned mission to Venus would probably have humans in balloons where the temperature and pressure are closer to Earth's.
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« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2020, 07:34:50 AM »

Since the possibility of life in Venus was dicovered, maybe there will be missions to Venus. But it is very hard to land a human being there. It is too hot!

A manned mission to Venus would probably have humans in balloons where the temperature and pressure are closer to Earth's.

That was actually in a Wolfenstein game.


I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.

If it is a mission conducted by the European Space Agency, might be an Austrian. He or she will put the blue flag with the circle of yellow stars and the red white red flag on the Mars surface.

The chances for that are very low because there is currently no Austronaut at ESA.

There are 3 Italians, 2 Germans, 1 French, 1 British and 1 Danish active astronauts.

The last new selection of astronauts was in 2009 though, so they might pick new ones soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Astronaut_Corps#Current_members

The last Austronaut was Franz Viehböck in the early 90s:

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I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.

If it is a mission conducted by the European Space Agency, might be an Austrian. He or she will put the blue flag with the circle of yellow stars and the red white red flag on the Mars surface.

The chances for that are very low because there is currently no Austronaut at ESA.

There are 3 Italians, 2 Germans, 1 French, 1 British and 1 Danish active astronauts.


A Mars landing is presumably far enough in the future that it'll probably be none of these people, so Austria still has a chance.


I can't see the ESA wasting money on a manned Mars mission. The only way a European is the first to set foot on Mars is if ey is part of a Mars colonization effort.

Right now China is the only country that potentially has both the capability and interest in a mission to send people to Mars and returning em.

They don't have any experience with super heavy technology. The SLS is actually finishing testing but I still don't think that is a serious effort. It just seems like welfare at this point. If the Super Heavy program is successful, I can see that being the first vehicle to fly to Mars with people. My guess is if it succeeds, it will do so in the early 2030s because Elon is right now thinking mid-2020s. This is based on the preponderance of past Space X programs and their current progress on the current one.
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« Reply #19 on: September 18, 2020, 09:21:17 AM »

Anyway, given that sex is apparently going to be banned during this Mars mission it might not be for everyone ("though it won't make much difference to most Atlas posters" comes the inevitable reply)
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« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2020, 06:11:18 PM »

I feel sorry for Tender Branson. Austria not being on the list must hurt him a lot.

If it is a mission conducted by the European Space Agency, might be an Austrian. He or she will put the blue flag with the circle of yellow stars and the red white red flag on the Mars surface.

The chances for that are very low because there is currently no Austronaut at ESA.

There are 3 Italians, 2 Germans, 1 French, 1 British and 1 Danish active astronauts.


A Mars landing is presumably far enough in the future that it'll probably be none of these people, so Austria still has a chance.


I can't see the ESA wasting money on a manned Mars mission. The only way a European is the first to set foot on Mars is if ey is part of a Mars colonization effort.

Right now China is the only country that potentially has both the capability and interest in a mission to send people to Mars and returning em.

They don't have any experience with super heavy technology. The SLS is actually finishing testing but I still don't think that is a serious effort. It just seems like welfare at this point. If the Super Heavy program is successful, I can see that being the first vehicle to fly to Mars with people. My guess is if it succeeds, it will do so in the early 2030s because Elon is right now thinking mid-2020s. This is based on the preponderance of past Space X programs and their current progress on the current one.

Elon might have the technical ability to do a Mars mission this decade, but unless he can get some sucker to fund it, it won't happen. Neither NASA nor ESA is gonna fund it and I can't see any other Western organization with even the interest.
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« Reply #21 on: September 18, 2020, 07:15:26 PM »

In order to have funds, the mission could have sponsors, like Coca Cola, McDonald's, IBM, Nike, Siemens, Bayer, BMW, Rolex, Gazprom, Nokia, Xiaomi etc. The sponsors could write their logos on the rocket, the shuttle and on the clothes of the crew.
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« Reply #22 on: September 18, 2020, 09:09:02 PM »

In order to have funds, the mission could have sponsors, like Coca Cola, McDonald's, IBM, Nike, Siemens, Bayer, BMW, Rolex, Gazprom, Nokia, Xiaomi etc. The sponsors could write their logos on the rocket, the shuttle and on the clothes of the crew.

Space missions are risky.  The last thing any potential sponsor would want is for their logo be plastered on the side of an exploding rocket.  Musk might be able to get free food and maybe a little money from a sponsor.
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« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2020, 10:14:10 PM »

Probably a US Naval officer. 
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« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2020, 11:32:23 PM »

A manned Mars mission would likely be a collaborative project between several countries, given that countries don't really "compete" with each other in terms of space exploration anymore. This isn't the Cold War. Like the ISS, a mission to Mars would likely be a collaborative project between NASA, the European Space Agency, Russia, Japan, Canada, etc.

(I don't expect China to magically become a part of that group anytime soon, & there's no way a Chinese space program beats all of those nations' combined efforts to have the 1st manned mission to Mars. Hell, even today, a manned mission to the Moon is still incredibly expensive & difficult, & I think China would have to at least do that as well as a rover landing on Mars before even thinking about a manned mission to Mars.)

As for the humans on that 1st manned mission themselves, my guess is that most of that 1st crew would be American astronauts since NASA in particular seems to have the best-developed stable full of highly intelligent, well-trained, driven astronaut candidates, any of whom would probably chomp at the bit for a chance to be the 1st person on Mars.

And as for the likely gender of that 1st person on Mars, well, women are less likely to snap mentally & kill one another in a long spaceflight, & they generally eat less, making them more efficient in a situation where everything's measured & monitored, so in all likelihood, they'll probably be an American woman.
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