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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant
That's true, it is the next step to real space travel. And it will become a reality in the not to distant future.
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It is the next great stepping stone on mankind's path to the stars. To be prophetic sounding. Mars has great potential for teaching humans about adapting to live outside of the protection of our home planet. It is most definitely the next step to
real space travel, the trips to the I.S.S. don't exactly count as space travel. They're more like extremely high altitude flights.
Not to change the topic, but:
What do you think about using solar sails to aid us in space travel?
I think that, considering the Cosmos 1 project, which sadly failed, due to launch equipment failure, we have the technology to allow for solar sail propulsion. There are predictions that, if measured and manipulated correctly, solar sail driven spacecraft could reach a significant fraction of light speed.