• Question: What do you think about the mission to Mars?

    Asked by 498spcn37 to Xu, Leah-Nani, Kathryn, Ian, Hina, Andrew on 15 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Kathryn Burrows

      Kathryn Burrows answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      I approve of a mission to Mars. I don’t know a lot about the specifics of the current planned missions and I certainly wouldn’t want to go without a return ticket! But I think humans should be spreading themselves out exploring the galaxy. Who knows what we will learn and we have a long way to travel if we want to survive as a species when the sun explodes!

    • Photo: Leah-Nani Alconcel

      Leah-Nani Alconcel answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      I assume you’re talking about a crewed mission to Mars? I think it’s a great idea but I also want it to be ethical. No one-way missions where people die very slowly of starvation and/or suffocation, please. I think the best idea currently is the one where the spacecraft does an orbital reconnaissance mission and comes back to Earth.

    • Photo: Andrew Margetts-Kelly

      Andrew Margetts-Kelly answered on 21 Jun 2018:

      Going to Mars is a really good way to start looking for life outside our own planet because the conditions on Mars could have supported life millions of years ago. It’d be amazing to find evidence of life.

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