Quote from: Friendlyuser on April 16, 2024, 03:54:09 PM

Quote from: Argoo on April 16, 2024, 10:43:31 AM

Look how technology has advanced over the past half century.

But some have really not, we have internet, intelligent washing machines that you an program to start and close when your solar panes are in full sun, a fridge you can take a live look from your smartphone or make it add things to your order as soon as you get an item out of it but when it comes to flying, we haven't done much. Neither with space technology, we're 70 years after the launch of a satellite and not much has happen.

Everything has its time. After Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, the space race between the USA and the USSR was almost curtailed. Later, Edwin Aldrin, the second crew member of the Apollo 11 mission, stated that they then saw aliens on the Moon who did not hide their presence. In order not to show them to the whole world, the mission control center made interference for two minutes. It seems that this was the reason that space exploration practically ceased.

Today, Russia, the USA and Europe are fighting for the right to become the first country to carry out a manned flight to Mars. Already in 2018, the European rover Exomars Rover should go to Mars. It is planned that he will take soil samples and draw up a detailed map of the area. Even India launched its Mangalyaan space probe to Mars in November 2013. It is needed to develop technologies for space flights to the Red Planet. China also announced its plans to explore Mars, after the successful launch of the automatic interplanetary station Chang'e-3 to study the Moon. NASA is testing a “flying saucer” designed for a soft landing of a spacecraft in the rarefied atmosphere of the Red Planet.

At the end of July, scientists made a sensational announcement that a unique space engine had been created, thanks to which it would be possible to reach the Moon in just four hours of flight, and to Mars in two and a half months. That is, if you work in this direction, effective space technology will appear quite quickly.