The future of manned craft - Missions and Designs

Tank you and i have watched a program or too and done research and there will be a exploration tom mars in 2020 and the astronauts will saty there for about a year and a half. I definetly want to see those findings. maybe we can find out about the scructures on mars and other things of mars atmosphere. I ahve not heard of any reports of terraforming, maybe they will consider it if mars is inhabitable to humans. I saw the design of the rocket it looks interesting. the design is rather seemed to be effect, it is like an cylinder with boosters on the end of it. If any body has other information please respond

The intuitive mind

I am almost convinced that a visit to Europa for colonization would be more useful since the apparent abundance of liquid water only a few meters below. Life? Maybe

it is all a maybe. where is europa in the solar system and how close is it to us(in lightyears)? how inhabitable is its surface area( i know we will still have to do leveling ourselves.).

The intuitive mind

Europa is one of the five original Jovian moons discovered by Gallileo.
Some facts about the moon are available at:

www.seds.org/billa/tnp/europa.html

Happy hunting, MV

I'm sorry to be the spoilsport guys but don't look for terraforming of any kind to occur in your lifetime. We haven't even relanded back on the Moon once in over 30 years let alone have the beginnings of the capability to terraform a surface anywhere.

I know a lot of people seem to be stuck on this holy grail idea of landing men on Mars when the financial burden imposed on any such mission is far greater than the payback. A half trillion dollars could build the OWL telescope, put giant radio telescopes on the Moon and still leave plenty of money left over for landing probes galore on all the planets. Do you really want to blow that wad on a single mission that will not increase our level of knowledge cost effectively?

If you are going to terraform somewhere then Mars is the clear choice, it already has plenty of water and the raw material to make an atmosphere. You would have a severe task figuring a way to heat Europa up to habitable levels.