On January 5th, 2018 humanity heads to Mars. The plan is for the trip to take 501 days, but this is entirely dependent on timing. Two professional US crew members will head out on this mission, preferably a man and woman, flying as private citizens on a “fast, free-return” mission.”
"A manned space flight to Mars would be in vain without the proper equipment. A working moral compass provides humanity with the means to survive and live at peace, if this is lost then technological based knowledge leads down a faster path to destruction."
"A manned space flight to Mars would be in vain without the proper equipment. A working moral compass provides humanity with the means to survive and live at peace, if this is lost then technological based knowledge leads down a faster path to destruction."
Theo Caprier
We’re stepping into a new age in space travel, the next great era of space exploration. There was a time when computers seemed like something out of science fiction, even people in their forties and late thirties remember being fascinated by computer technology. To our children though computers are so common, when a new PC or Apple brand comes out they don’t seem to be as impressed. Everyone has a computer now, it’s nothing special. The prediction is when our grandchildren are adults’ space travel will be the same as computers were to my generation; space travel will be so common place, everyone will have access to going beyond our planet. This next generation may be remembered as the age where science fiction became reality.
“A new nonprofit led by the world’s first space tourist is mounting an ambitious plan to launch the first manned mission to Mars in 2018, a voyage that could include an adventurous married crew…
The project, led by American millionaire Dennis Tito — who paid his own way to space in 2001 — aims not to land people on the surface of the Red Planet, but to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment that would allow a relatively easy, quick flyby of Mars.”
http://news.yahoo.com/wanted-married-couple-private-mars-voyage-2018-180850635.html 
“Investments in human space exploration technologies and operations by NASA and the space industry are converging at the right time to make this mission achievable,” said Taber MacCallum, chief technology officer for Inspiration Mars. MacCallum is also CEO/CTO of Paragon Space Development Corporation.
The foundation released a “feasibility fact sheet” of an analysis regarding a manned Mars mission by 2018. This sheet includes mathematics that show a spacecraft launch aboard a Dragon capsule and a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket would be able to deliver the crew to the proper trajectory to make the trip to Mars. They’ve broken down everything from how much carbon dioxide would be produced, to how much solid waste would be produced during the journey. Inspiration Mars even included items such as “Feminine Health” in its analysis.
“We are confident that this mission is feasible, and this investigation did not reveal any showstoppers. We believe that the cost would be significantly less than previous estimates for manned Mars missions, and could be financed privately without relying on government funding,” the foundation said in the analysis.
“We also believe that with current and near-term technology it is possible to be ready for a Mars flyby launch in January, 2018 and that we should not pass on this mission since the next opportunity does not occur again until 2031.”
My generation may be remembered as the age when computers became widely available to the public, but with this increase in technological knowledge wisdom seemed to decrease. Our world entered into a time of war, (a war which lasted for over ten years), and there was an economic crisis (where upon graduation Generation Y was dumped into a recession), and to top it off there was a historical record for broken families where the majority of children grew up in single parent homes. As we step into the Space Exploration Era, perhaps many of the problems we see today could be resolved. Perhaps the next generation will be inspired by the new possibilities, and hopefully they’ll not make the same mistakes as my generation. As we go forward we must retain wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is how we make troublesome inventions like the atom bomb and chemical warfare. Knowledge with wisdom is how we gain the written word, the toilet, seat belts, the computer, digital technology, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to name some. In summary the hope is in the next generation depending on the balance between knowledge and wisdom, instead of depending solely on technological knowhow.
On January 5th, 2018 a new path for us to follow will be cleared. A moral compass will be needed to guide all of us anywhere worth going, especially to other worlds. Without this our technological based knowledge will only lead us down a faster path to destruction.
http://news.yahoo.com/whos-riskiest-generation-them-not-141152814.html
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