chunseye

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chunseye38 karma

Hi guys! Loving the recent announcements about the entire Mars program, got me excited like a little kid!

Two questions:

  1. About the whole "we're going to make a small asteroid orbit the moon" thing: won't the asteroid be pulled towards earth as well, making its orbit very unstable? Will it require continuous 'redirecting' by the SEP?

  2. One of the biggest issues surrounding the Mars One project, is that there's no way back for humans once you land on Mars. Do you envision any new developments in the coming 20-40 years that will be able to bring astronauts back, after they've landed on Mars?

Thanks for doing an AMA!

chunseye11 karma

Yeah, but how do they plan on doing that? The Mars One project's message is that it requires too much energy to bring people to the surface and back.. is there a new kind of propulsion system in the works that doesn't require the mission to bring a buttload of fuel along with it?