Today, Mars One announced the 100 finalist candidates chosen for its one-way trip to Mars, and 33 Americans were selected. The Netherlands-based non-profit organization would like to establish a colony on the red planet and plans to do so without NASA's help, as the space agency has its own projects underway. In the 1970s, we made our first Mercury flyby, which took us about 147 days. But if you want to travel there, you have to slow down to your orbital speed, which takes a lot of time.
Venus is our closest neighbor, but it's still 25,000,000 miles away at its closest point (and 162,000,000 miles at its farthest point). Fortunately, no one wants to go there because of its inhospitable environment. As for Neptune, it will take 12 years to get there - and there's no good reason for anyone to want to go there.
Interplanetary space flight
or interplanetary travel is the journey with or without a crew between stars and planets, usually within a single planetary system.In practice, space flights of this type are limited to traveling between the planets of the Solar System. Unmanned space probes have traveled to all the observed planets in the Solar System, as well as to the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres, and to several asteroids. Orbiters and landers return more information than flyby missions. Manned flights have landed on the Moon and have been planned, from time to time, for Mars, Venus and Mercury.
While many scientists appreciate the value of the knowledge provided by unmanned flights, the value of manned missions is more controversial. Science fiction writers propose a number of benefits, such as the extraction of asteroids, access to solar energy and space for colonization in the event of a terrestrial disaster. In order to understand how long it would take you to travel to each of the major planets and dwarf planet Pluto, you need to take into account the changes in speed necessary to travel from one body to another in the Solar System. If we found life on Mars, there is a high probability that it would have traveled to Earth at some point due to an exchange of matter between the two planets. The author of a new research article published in the International Journal of Astrobiology states that extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) may not need starships to escape existential threats and travel to another star system - they could use panspermia instead. The controversial theory of panspermia suggests that life may have traveled from one planet to another - such as from Mars to Earth - through interstellar objects that traveled through interstellar space, including asteroids that crashed into Earth during their early years. The trip to Jupiter takes about 6 years using Earth's gravity to launch the Galileo probe twice - but eliminating these factors allows young students to estimate how long it would take them using other methods such as walking, cycling or driving a car.
In addition to making travel faster or cheaper, these improvements could also allow for greater safety margins in design by reducing the need to make spaceships lighter. Unlike interstellar travel, the barriers that prevent rapid interplanetary travel relate more to engineering and economics than basic physics. A number of technologies have been proposed that save fuel and allow you to travel significantly faster than traditional Hohmann transfers. If there is a planet between your starting point and your target destination, it can be used as a shortcut - bending your path towards your goal and reducing total travel time in many cases. With these advancements in technology and understanding of interplanetary travel, we can now explore our Solar System with greater ease.
