50 years after the first landing of man on the moon, another historic step forward: China has landed a space probe on the back side of the moon. The ambitious and prestigious maneuver is part of a new race to the moon.
several projects aim to enable the people to have a place to Stay on the moon. From there to the next step and spacemen go to Mars.
Video: China lands Chang’e 4 on the back side of the moon Never before, humanity has the technical device on the far side of the moon sold. China has managed to do it now. Video: Reuters
just last December, the Nasa presented their Plan to build at the behest of Donald Trump a permanent base on the moon. Nasa has advertised in November with a Video for the project “Moon to Mars”. The Plan provides for, among other things, to build a permanent base on the moon. In order to implement the “Space Policy Directive-1,” which has given US President Donald Trump in December 2017.
the private company SpaceX wants to launch people to the moon. The Elon Musk founded space companies, to allow them with a huge rocket tourists to the moon. A prototype of a reusable Super Heavy Starship is currently under construction.
The original Big Falcon Rocket baptised rocket with 118 meters higher than the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo program. This was 110 meters high. For comparison: A Boeing 747-8 reaches a length of 76 meters.
Stainless Steel Starship pic.twitter.com/rRoiEKKrYc
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2018
The SpaceX rocket should, in theory, a crew of 100 people to accommodate what the company is striving for a colonization of Mars. Both the Nasa and the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft – und Raumfahrt (DLR) work together with SpaceX.
A reusable Falcon-9 rocket in December, a satellite with a greenhouse on Board. Thus, the DLR research into the cultivation of tomatoes and other vegetables, which space could provide remote of the earth itself with food.
A big Problem
solved Want to stop people over a longer period of time in space, there is a need to solve a variety of problems. Everything the astronauts need to Survive, you must bring your own: air, water, food.
The moon offers an advantage here: in Several missions in the past few years have shown that there is ice on the moon. It can be not only water but also oxygen for Breathing and hydrogen that serves as fuel.
mountains of eternal light
in Order to the water on the moon, would be mining needed. With solar-powered equipment, the ice could be brought from the Rock. In addition to shady craters in the vicinity of the North and of the South pole mountain chains, the light are almost always in the sun.
ESA probe Smart-1, as well as the Kaguya spacecraft of the Japanese space Agency Jaxa to create maps of the mountains of eternal light. (17. November 2010) image: Jaxa
The French astronomer Camille Flammarion was the mountains that were thought of in 1837, for the first time, theoretically, the name “pics de lumière éternelle” mountains of eternal light. In these places built solar installations could deliver around-the-clock electricity.
China wants more
The Chinese space Agency is planning this year, another unmanned landing on the moon, rock samples back to earth to bring By 2030, for the first time a Chinese to set foot on the moon. In addition, China is planning the construction of a space station. Time horizon: 2022. Thus, it is possible that most of the people alive today will experience the colonization of the moon.
picture gallery: The first images of the probe, Chang’e 4
“Moon to Mars”: Nasa is developing a US President Donald Trump commissioned the project. The Lander Insight, listen to the Mars after the seismic activities. (Visualization) image: Nasa
in addition to economic motives, there are a number of arguments, which is why manned moon or Mars missions in the humanity sense. On the one hand, the research in space helps to understand phenomena on the earth. Astronomers will also try to answer the question as to the origin of life.
And, not least, can such mega projects, the people closer together. No Nation would, according to scientists in the position to accomplish a flight to Mars alone. Millions of people watch on TV a Mars landing, with a fever, you with the space for drivers, no matter which origin they have.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 03.01.2019, 13:05 PM
