What The Journey To Mars Will Be Like! 

I'm almost 71 now, and I hope I live long enough to see Man set foot on Mars.

Having served on a nuclear submarine that was over 360 feet long, had three decks, both extracted its oxygen and distilled its potable water from seawater, had plenty of storage for food, operated in a gravity present environment, was relatively comfortable, and could surface in an emergency...I sincerely wish the Mars crew good luck with a mission extending beyond a year.

In my 70s now and wish I could be here to see this achieved. Glad I got to see A. Shepard go sub orbit to Armstrong go manual safe landing on the moon. Best wishes to all future pioneers!!

I was 8 years old when I watched the first men land on the Moon, and I've been waiting for them to get to Mars ever since. I hope I'll still be alive to see it happen.

We are still very prehistoric when you come to space travel. Rockets are like old school

Best of luck to the first crew to Mars, most likely they won't be seen again, it won't be as easy as these video's portray that trip to be, the time it will take, how almost every mechanical device must work, the Van Allen radiation belt to go thru, the need to get along with one another for such a long period of time, and the space hazards as the vehicles travel thru space beyond the Moon, the odds are not in their favor, lots of luck.

We are two hundred years away from going to Mars

imagine being on a coach flight for 2 years?

I once went on a Mars simulator at an amusement park when I was a little girl. It was a bumpy ride, took about 10 minutes!

You go. I will stay home.

Send me to mars , i'm already spending all my time alone 🥲 . Being stuck in a spaceship with 2-3 people is an upgrade to my social situation 😅

I'm going to challenge the first part of this video - establishing a Moonbase as the initial step. According to this idea, we have to lift all the Mars equipment that we will need out of the Earth's gravity well, drop it into the Moon's gravity well, and then later, when all is ready lift it out of the Moon's gravity well again. But surely if the Mars rocket assembly process was all completed in Earth orbit, we would obviate the extra mass required to get on and off the Moon. In other words, unless you manufacture the propellant and necessary hardware actually on the Moon, you don't win anything by going there first.

Short stay using a gravity assist around Venus is incredible. Imagine being the crew on that ship. Not only do you get to see Mars up close, but you also get to see Venus, too.

By the time they build something I'd feel comfortable taking that trip on, I'll be long gone but I do hope I live to see people land on Mars

Just seeing all of these older people here wanting to see us walk on mars is making me want it to happen even sooner. Thank all of you old timers for giving us the stepping stones to make this happen.

Let’s get the launch and landing right before we start worrying about the journey

Not even mentioning Mars or even the permanent Moon base, just the phrase “Lunar Gateway Space Station” brings me so much joy and chills 😅☺️

It took 25 years to get JWST in Space, so I don't see a manned space craft that can stay on Mars for practical reasons and usage for at least 25 more years, and that's being super optimistic 😂

In one word: ''Deadly.'' Goooood luck to the first adventurers...do send postcards!

ayo star wars is about to be real. i use to dream of walking on mars. i can not wait wait for this man. i hope i live to see this

All this money spent on this pipe dream could be better spent on solving the problems on this Earth planet !

Until the Trip to Mars can be made in less than a week I am fine right here on earth .

If landing on Mars is going to be an island hopping venture, such as first having a base on the moon and then jumping off from there, don't hold your breath, if the last 55 years progress can be extrapolated into the future, ain't no way it's going to happen in 200 or more years. It's nice to dream but a dream without a goal is a hallucination

Cool! Merci.

Bone loss, muscle atrophy, blood pooling - gonna be a hell of a ride. I would be surprised if they could even survive returning to Earth.

400 day return? That is almost unbelivable, I think the plan will change as we get closer and technology gets better.

Nuclear thermal rocket engine sounds like something Wil-E-Cyote would chase the Roadrunner with, but with DARPA involved, probably much more likely to work. Very interesting!

The disc shape must be launched in pie slices/ Vandenberg facility.

Nice thing is NASA when they land can go for a drink at SpaceX Mars bar.

A 2 year journey without gravity. I'll have to see it to believe it. Until they work out a viable artifical gravity system, any manned venture to Mars is going to be difficult if not impossible.

Love the TKS nod in one of the animations! 😍

This is good! Wow, lots of comments. I appreciate the work you put into this. Thank you for the entertainment.. I watch The Space Race often.

A hundred years from now we'll still be planning a Mars mission. Just an opinion. A bit like nuclear fusion.

Space is so vast i wonder how far we will travel but we have a few billion years to come up with something

Half of me thinks, what's the point in going to Mars, and then the other half of me thinks, we might as well because we'll never get any further than that anyway because of the distances and the time it would take to get there is beyond anything a human could withstand.

I wanted more of what a journey would be like

Just wonderful! I feel so upbeat! Ever since my childhood, space exploration never failed to ignite my imagination.

At night, Mars temperature is 100 to 190 degrees below zero (F). They should definitely bring a warm sweater.

I hope I get to see this in my lifetime.

I’m sure SpaceX will greet them and take them out to dinner a few days after arriving.

It is sad the US did not settling the Moon 45 years ago.

Sorry to say 'Not quite there yet' is a bit of an understatement. Just a few scientific impossibilities to overcome before we get to Star Trek. Travelling Faster than Light, Mechanical teleportation -that sort of thing.

Would be great if SpaceX gets there first!!!

Just got Apple TV and we are watching For All Mankind. It’s a great show and wonderful to thinking that these things HAVE and WILL come to pass!

Wonderful cartoon and plan. Now, all they have to do is figure out how not to die from exposure to radiation after a few months on the Mars.

I am really loving the details here, and the idea that innovation is going to make things quicker and easier than we know at this moment. Great video.

I'm looking forward to mankind's progress in space and the mission to Mars.

Hope the journey will happen in our lifetime!

My thoughts are that it's a crazy thing expecting people to travel for two years in such a confined object and an out of this world experience,the astronauts must be very brave but what about the families they leave behind,I think it's an impossible mission, just remember how lighthouse keepers found it difficult to cope in isolation for several weeks so imagine years,ya can't imagine it.

This was a great video, but I ESPECIALLY loved seeing some of my videos featured in it! Thanks for the shoutout! Really fun. As I've been talking with some NASA engineers and scientists lately, there really does seem to be a big push from within the community to either send humans to Venus before Mars (although not to land) or, as you mentioned, to at least travel to Mars via a Venusian gravity assist. Venus is just far easier (and cheaper and faster) to travel to and return from than Mars. Again, not to land, but to study the planet from a few hundred or thousand kilometers above. In either case, very exciting to get to visit not just one but TWO planets on our way to a Mars mission! We'll be making a video on our channel about this soon, but really cool to see it mentioned here.

Outstanding.

Mike Collins mustache always makes me chuckle

Not sure if Mars can be a habitable planet considering that it’s gravity is a fraction to that on Earth, it’s just not suited for human life, It’s probably a better idea to construct Mall-sized living space ecosystems with either centripetal or centrifugal motion to create artificial gravity. We could print the parts in space and assemble it all in space. Sure, do the Mars stations and exploration but gravity is the elephant in the room that needs to be front and center in the continuing need to journey out into the heavens. Without solving Earth-like gravity problem, we might as well scrape the idea of routine long-hall space exploration.

Great goals but seems highly unlikely that this will ever happen due to the costs and risks involved.

thank you very much

Exciting times, I hope I’m still around to see mard landing 👍🌙🚀🚀

Have you guys forgotten about SpaceX? I thought they were going to send the Starship to Mars and build a colony.

These intros are getting REALLY good. Been watching every video on both your channels for over a year and just want to say good job team 👏 👏

,awesome ,keep moving forward

Very interesting video!.Man on Mars is a must........I watched the 1st men walk on the moon, and hope to see the 1st astronauts walk on Mars (that's the only thing on my bucket list) at 74 years old I hope they speed the whole process up!

Wonderful! ❤

My children’s grandchildren will still be in the lifetime of planning a trip to Mars lol.

Nobody ever talks about the "Moondogs"!

I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon when I was 6 years old. Still remember it like it was yesterday. I hope to watch someone repeat that feat on Mars.

We better work out a cure for cancer first, the radiation for the long stay would damage the human body severely.

I sure hope we land on Mars during my lifetime! (I am not in my first youth) I would really like to witness that!

Where do I sign up

We haven't even been to the moon. Don't hold your breath for Mars

Loved this video. Great to see a lifelong dream of exploration of space become a reality. Thanks for the time your team takes to enlighten our minds & renew our aspirations

My brother's first job out of college was with Mac Dac, building bits of the ISS, or the Boeing Space Station, it's nick name after Boeing bought macdac. We've been science geeks since birth, Dad was USAF electronics and Motor Pool trainer, If it drove on base he could drive it, and teach you how to as well. thanks for the videos

❤ thanks for sharing 👍

Build it!

This would make a good science fiction movie. That's about all this is. Even the tiny part about colonizing the Moon... infrastructure there... living there... manufacturing and processing facilities there... producing and making what you need there... If the countries of the world got together and attempted it, that one little part alone is still a pipe dream.

It’s very exciting to look ahead to see what the future is gonna be like.🚀🤓⚡️

We are going to have to develop a [TSH] Telescoping Star-ship HAB 10 to 12 levels to build the first over 400d foot for gravity. 1 70 ft 6 to 8 docks with 2 HABs should transport 50 crew. 2 HUB, 4 tranker, 2 Transports/10 crew HAB, 2 Cargo/Transports.

The cosmic radiation may be the most difficult thing to overcome for these missions.

Where did all this information come from? Specifically the Artemis 10+ missions and Mars mission durations? Adding your sources to the description would allow people to get more info and would be a great way to maintain credibility!

The blooming space-age blows my mind and inspires me to get healthy and finish my education so that I can experience these monumental times... Imagine what the world could accomplish together...

It will be just like the trip to the moon, pretend and imagined.

There’s short stay, long stay, and, most likely, eternal stay.

If the starship fleet of 1k is realized than there is no reason we won’t be able to build small star trek sized ships in space. Its within reach in the near future!!

Artificial gravity would make the journey so much easier for humans!

We are explorers looking for the next great adventure. What is behind or around the next corner

I want in-flight snacks, and they had better be serving dinner.

Too much to go wrong. The astronauts are going to die. It's not worth it.

Don t worry they will film it in a studio like the moon landings ,nobody was hurt😂

We will see if this happens. Radiation will be the real threat

i like how you, as well as nasa, make it sound so doable :) i wish humans lived longer. hopefully it happens before im an old man

The long duration mission actually sounds safer if we can't use a rotating vehicle. On the other hand if we can then the short duration mission would clearly be better. Its possible (really not that difficult) to simulate 1G in space with a teather and counterweight.

It's fascinating to think about other planets, but to leave our blue marble to go live on a dead dust ball is insane.

One step at the time,one journey at the time,one Galaxie at the time ⏲️ ✨️ 🙏

We make it to Mars, we colonise Mars, we make its atmosphere breathable, then where to next.

I hope I live long enough to see a thriving community of humans in space.

Stephen Baxter wrote a book called Voyage. Using Apollo technology with a gravity assist using Venus to add extra speed, a manned mission could've been done in the 1980s. It's a well written story worth checking out.

2 years in a tin can? air supply? food? , water? heating, power? radiation shields? All these need to be sorted out just on the way there. Once on Mars, a liveable sturdy domicile with air supply? food? , water? heat? power, radiation shields? Would all need to be erected before the first ship even arrives on Mars. The resource logistics for such a venture, would be critical path to the survival of the crew. If you had sufficient resources to get there , to last the duration of your stay on Mars, and the return journey back to earth, you would only need to worry about everything else that could go wrong. Thus sickness of crew, contagion of unknown viruses, life threatening accidents , malfunctioning of critical systems and equipment, and a myriad of other unexpected things, like meteor storms, dust storms, etc, that could be deadly to the crew. If this venture /mission was truly ever undertaken, the life expectancy, or survival of the astronauts would be minimum. That is , not many, if any, would ever return safely back home to earth alive. There are just way too many deadly factors , any one of them, which could result in a total mission failure. So dream on, and fantasise all you like, but the odds , if you really consider them, are stacked against a successful mission.

One problem with a 45 day transit to mars, @ 200,000 MPH a BB size asteroid can cut through 1/2 inch steel. a good portion of the ships mass would have to be a bulkhead to protect the ship

This was one of the most well-presented, informative, cautious and yet inspirational videos I’ve ever seen. Thank you.

I can't be bothered to watch this. Could someone please explain to me how NASA proposes to keep the astronauts from dying of cancer in the hard radiation of space? Also, if they did get to Mars alive, what do they propose to do about the incredibly toxic environment there, and continued hard radiation? The seldom-admitted truth about the ISS is that it is actually in the upper fringes of the atmosphere ( that's why it constantly needs to be 'boosted' ) and is well within the protection of the planet. Otherwise it would be a deathtrap. Robots exploring space makes sense. Humans exploring space is idiocy, until the robots find something worthwhile out there. Even then, robots can probably do it better.

Very interesting.

Dois anos de viagem? Ok, estou pronto!!!!!