5. Surgery
Just as humans are being prepared to live in space, it is also necessary to have the facility to perform surgery in some way because a person living in space can die in space due to infection with just a tiny scratch. Simple things such as injections, tooth extractions, and bandits can be done in the International Space Station in space. If another problem happens, that astronaut is sent back to Earth. This space station does not have good medical facilities, just facilities like first aid. If a person stays in space, then he will also get sick, and then it will be tough to do surgery because due to lack of gravity, blood comes out of the body, then it will fly here and there and make the cabin dirty. Anesthesia injection also does not work on people in space. There is no proper idea why this happens. But this means that any surgery will have to be done without sedation which will be very troublesome and painful.
4. Successful Landing On Mars
Most of the human-sent vehicles that have landed on Mars to date have failed to land. Landing on Mars is not so easy because the atmosphere of Mars is 100 times thinner than Earth’s, and due to this, the speed of the vehicle’s fall does not slow down while descending from the sky. To slow down the speed of the vehicles used in the human mission, it will take vast and strong parachutes, which have not been ready yet. Trials are still going on such parachutes. Their work is in the underdevelopment phase.
3. Dust Storm (Mars)
In January 2004, NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity landed on Mars to complete its 90-day mission to find water. He finished this task early, and then for the next 15 years, he helped NASA a lot in completing many missions. But in June 2018, he lost contact with NASA due to a dust storm. There are two types of storms on Mars. First, typical storms that occur every few months at first, but are as large as a continent, thankfully tend to be mild and last only a few weeks. The second type of storm is the one that destroyed the Mars rover Opportunity. This storm engulfs the entire planet Mars. According to the Earth, after every five and a half years, a terrible storm occurs on Mars, creating chaos for many months. It will cover any human things present on Mars because solar panels on Mars will be the only source of energy, so that solar panels will be covered with dust. Even there will be so much dust in the atmosphere that sunlight will not reach the bottom for several months, which can put any colony or station settled there in danger.
2. Asteroid Belt
Assume that we humans have settled on Mars, but there is another danger of meteorites even then. The asteroid belt of our solar system is present between Mars and Jupiter, which means close to Mars, in which there are 1.9 million asteroids of large 1-kilometer diameter, and humans cannot count small-sized asteroids on Mars. The settlement would fall from space, and there is no dense atmosphere on Mars, so even a small meteorite that usually burns up in Earth’s atmosphere disappears without burning. So it will destroy the human settlement on Mars. So far, humans do not have the technology to make an accurate estimate of where meteorites can fall, and even if detected, they cannot even stop them from hitting the planet. But scientists have prepared many different theories, which will be done practically in the coming few decades to be able to control the meteor bodies coming towards us.
1. Money
All these theories are being made, preparations are being made, planning is being done to know on Mars that it will take a lot of money to convert it into reality. With a small example, let us understand that there is a distance of 12,500 km between Mumbai and New York, and the average flight ticket price is $629. So it costs $629 for 12,500 km, so the journey to Mars is to go 365.85 million km and come back 365.85 million km. Now add and calculate and tell in the comments below. At present, the space agency at the forefront of the space race in the whole world, budget-wise, is NASA. However, the Mars trip is so expensive that even NASA cannot afford it. So how much will it cost if humans are sent to Mars by 2030, about $1 trillion? The fact is that the US government cannot spend that much money on NASA. NASA’s budget for the 2022 year is $24.8 billion. Out of which, only 10% can be invested on Mars mission, and every year the money was given to NASA only increases by 2%. With this 2% increase, reaching Mars for the next 100 years is challenging. For this, NASA will have to do something different.
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