Manned flights to Mars found it inappropriate
The well-known project of Roskosmos and the Russian Academy of Sciences " Mars-500 ", during which a manned flight to Mars of six "astronauts" who agreed to sit in a closed room for 520 days and cost $ 15 million, apparently, in the near future will not receive real use was simulated. .
General Designer and General Director of the S.A. Lavochkin Victor Hartov acknowledged that a manned flight to Mars is impractical from both an economic and scientific point of view. To the question of journalists about plans to conquer space, he replied in the sense that flying to Mars simply to leave its mark there (just as the United States undertook a series of lunar missions not to look like an outsider compared to the USSR) does not make sense.
However, the idea of flying to Mars is not completely rejected. Apparently, if the project of the flight to the Red Planet is carried out, then it will be fully automatic at first, and the fate of manned flights is a matter of a rather distant future. President and General Designer of RSC Energia, Vitaly Lopota, believes that the real time period for the project is 20 years.
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Interestingly, according to NASA plans, manned flights during the new space missions should be held in 2018.
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General Designer and General Director of the S.A. Lavochkin Victor Hartov acknowledged that a manned flight to Mars is impractical from both an economic and scientific point of view. To the question of journalists about plans to conquer space, he replied in the sense that flying to Mars simply to leave its mark there (just as the United States undertook a series of lunar missions not to look like an outsider compared to the USSR) does not make sense.
Manned flight is a super-difficult task, and it must be scientifically justified ... A long flight, with radiation effects. In addition, after visiting Mars, you will need to take off from it, and for this you first need to lower to the surface a rather large fueled rocket.
However, the idea of flying to Mars is not completely rejected. Apparently, if the project of the flight to the Red Planet is carried out, then it will be fully automatic at first, and the fate of manned flights is a matter of a rather distant future. President and General Designer of RSC Energia, Vitaly Lopota, believes that the real time period for the project is 20 years.
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To fly to Mars on a ship, you need to transport about 500 tons of cargo ... I think that if you approach this ambitiously, with political will, then we have a technological opportunity in the near future, in three or four years, to have a launch vehicle 70-75 tons. To collect 500 tons, they must be eight pieces.
We can cope for 10 years, but to technologically ensure the life of the crew, another 10 years, that is, we could cope in 20 years. But again, ambition is needed and political will.
Interestingly, according to NASA plans, manned flights during the new space missions should be held in 2018.
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