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Originally Posted by themisfithitman
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.
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I think that they are great ways and the most effient way to send probs to other solar systems, but even so it will take around 20 years before it can reach the nearest solar system and even then, the info that we receive from it will be four years old when it appears on our screens.