Cheap space trip? Let's go to one of Mars's moons Posted: 1 year ago by hisidea
Phobos is the size of Manhattan and Deimos is about a third as large, just 6.3 kilometres wide. So their gravitational pull is only one-thousandth that of Earth, making landing on them more like docking with another spaceship. Putting a person on Mars could cost $200 billion to $300 billion, including the cost of decades of research. The bill for a run to Deimos could be as low as $30 billion.
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Posted: 1 year ago by teresag:
Allow me to extend this to its logical conclusion: why go at all? Curiosity?
I think space is cool, but the application of space science is too far removed from human problems to make it a useful expenditure.
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Posted: 1 year ago by Moe:
Completely disagree. We have NO IDEA what is there. How do we know that we will not find some form of rock formation that will lead us to alternate fuel sources? There are a million things that we could find there, but only if we go.
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Posted: 1 year ago by davbob:
I think this could be a dupe
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