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The Real Reason the First Mars Crew Will Never Return

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A crewed Mars mission cannot travel with the return vehicle that carries the crew home. That vehicle has to reach the Mars surface before they do, landed alone with nobody aboard, and no rocket has ever lifted off the surface of another planet. In April 2026, 4 astronauts came back from the Moon. At their farthest they were 252,756 miles from home, which broke a record that had stood since 1970, and they covered 695,000 miles in total. They were in the Pacific 9 days after launch. That is the scale of every crewed return ever flown. The popular account of how a Mars mission ends is incomplete. Mars, and everything that has to happen before anyone can leave it.

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@acefire4050 2 weeks ago

You know that if you say something on the space station to NASA it takes 5 minutes before NASA answers so you would have to think it takes how about 20 minutes before you can get an answer from the Mars and it'll take another 20 minutes to get back to you and to take whatever discussion they have before they answer you

@acefire4050 2 weeks ago

And you don't understand there's always going to be returned vehicle at a Mars too one next day before anybody goes there 2 that's there before anybody goes there 4 that's there before anybody goes there and 1 will we return before anybody goes there and that's the only way Nassau let anybody go to Mars there are any other place in space if the vehicle comes back before they send the first person to Mars or any other place

@acefire4050 2 weeks ago

Why would you say to be impossible to come back from Mars when the first Mars crew will be going there after about a dozen ships are sent there and they won't be allowed to go to Mars until the first ship has fuel on Mars that can make it back to Earth so the first thing you could think of is why would there be a dozen ships over at Mars before they send the first person ship that's something NASA has said you're going to send a lot of ships there and fill it up there before the first person goes there or there'll be no one going to Mars ever again or ever try to go there to begin with

@stevebroome1288 2 weeks ago

The poor narrator seemed overwhelmed with the possibility of traveling to Mars. I would like to have heard him describe a journey to the South Pole in Antarctica in the 19th century. He would have hyperventilated. Yes, the first trip to Mars will be hard and dangerous but I’m confident that there will be thoughtful preparations. I could only make it thru the first five minutes.

@mustang2545 13 days ago

the first crew is robots !!

@acefire4050 2 weeks ago

That's not quite true it wasn't in 1995 who is when Russia had a problem with a war going on in its own country and break it up the whole country into many different countries the only way the Russian came back is when the United States came up there and adopted with the space station and shook the guy's arm that was up there for 4 years while 2 years 1 1/2 years or whatever you want to say before we brought him back down to Earth so I can go back home in Russia and he had no space ship to bring home there was nothing on the space station from the return from something Russia did not do was put on a returnship he had to wait for a space shuttle are in Russia's case a rocket so when the space shuttle landed on the Russian space station Russian was able to come back home