Nasas Moon to Mars Mission
hello
my name is colin francois and this is my
tedx speech about nasa’s moon to mars
mission
now ever since 1959 nasa has been
innovating
on a field that is less than a century
old space travel
nasa has already been to the moon but
intends to go back this time
with their sights set on mars now they
plan to first establish a lunar outpost
on the moon that they will use for many
reasons such as development and research
after nasa has a station up and running
they intend to use it as a
resource that can help nasa visit other
celestial bodies and develop practices
that will
better suit life on other planets
now i can run back to my childhood where
i would look up at the stars and just
imagine
how amazing it was the scope of our
galaxy and to think that the universe is
just
billions and trillions of times bigger
is insane to me and the fact that we’re
now getting our
essentially beginning to explore that is
amazing to me
now looking back to the early nineteen
hundreds a french director named george
miley’s had an early depiction of what
he thought golden moon would be like
in 1902 he made a short seinfeld card
called a trip to the moon
where french astronomers were launched
from a silver bullet into the moon
from a large catapult and actually
fought reptile-like
people on the moon and then came back
and presented to humans
now this might be a dramaticized early
interpretation of what would be like
but the fact that we can now actually go
there and establish a permanent base
just shows how 100 years ago it seemed
impossible and it was more of a fantasy
than
actual reality now the first step in
completing this endeavor will be
to organize delivery sources to the
lunar body and back from various united
states companies
transporting scientific equipment and
technologies a spaceship called the
gateway
will be instrumental in supporting human
missions to the service and to be used
in an extended period of time
gabriel will also have the capability to
give nasa access to much more of the
moon’s surface than ever before
and allow for both human and robotic
missions to the surface
nasa’s new powerful space launch system
rocket sls and their spacecraft orion
will be essential to construct the
gateway and transport astronauts to and
from earth
and the moon now the first flight of the
sls will be in 2020
it will be to test the new innovative
spacecraft systems
flying together for the first time
without crew and the second flight will
be manned
and is targeted for 2022 the mission
that will take astronauts
for a fly test around the moon the first
the third flight of the sls and iran
will be in the delivery process for new
gateway
parts for the missions flying nearly
once per year thereafter
sos will launch larger components for
the gateway on fights along with orion
and orion will be used as a vessel to
deliver those modules to the desired
orbit for assembly
now together orion sls and gateway
represent the core
of nasa’s new sustainable infrastructure
for human exploration
now the gateway will allow for multiple
month-long expeditions
to the moon and other bodies enabling
for exploration of new locations
throughout the moon the first part
of the gateway scheduled to take off on
a private rocket in 2022
and propel as well as bring
communications for the spaceship
after orbit is achieved will be tested
in space for around a year
nas will then launch astronauts in orion
on a space launch system rocket carrying
over two new modules for the gateway
that will add a living space
and write other various capabilities for
the astronauts
over time the gate will become a waste
station for the development of refueling
depots
servicing platforms and a facility
capable of even processing
samples from the moon and other
sustained bodies in support of science
and commerce
and nasa will continue to work with
other companies in the space travel
industry
to find ways to innovate and prepare to
combat the challenges of living in space
how to properly dispose of trash and
other challenges
faced when living in space now
considering the moon’s distance
sorry from the earth about 1 000 times
out of the international space station
these systems become increasingly
important in the even larger trip
to mars which is 34 million miles
now besides the logistics of the mission
it’s important that the informational
gains were so during the entirety
of the mission once we arrive on the
surface of the moon
we can look for natural resources that
we can use for further exploration and
even bring back to earth
and we can test samples and see if
there’s anything we haven’t previously
discovered
now once we get to mars that’s where the
real
informational gains will start to
benefit us as we know there’s evidence
that there was
water on mars in the north and south
poles and we’ll be able to visit those
places
and try to look for that evidence look
for possible water still there
and that means we’ll be very close to
looking for life
as water is the key to life anywhere
now exploring the moon to mars is
essentially a combined effort for nasa
to get their foot in the door and they
ever
expanding universe there will be a
staging ground to test
and improve on new technologies
instruments and such
and perfect life support systems for the
astronauts
to ensure their survival and cross
all future missions now after they
develop those practices and built the
outpost on the moon
it will of course become a place we use
for
all future lunar sorry celestial
missions
now long periods on the gateway will
allow nasa to research long-term effects
of living on
in space on humans to eventually endure
the long trip to mars