With the rise in technology, it is no doubt that the world in the nearest future will be a place of our dreams, but would it? Space exploration brought about the rise in so many technological innovations and we are glad about it, but it looks like we are about to experience a de ja vu.
Some fifty years ago, we wanted to explore space and its celestial body and there came the Apollo program which landed humans on the moon. What a day to remember in history of space. When we got to the moon, expectations increased as everyone thought a lot of innovations would happen and we would visit and claim other celestial bodies only to a dismay that we would not go to any other celestial bodies or planet for nearly 50 years.
This year, Elon Musk launched the United States NASA astronauts to space orbit where the International Space Station is and it was a phenomena event for the United states has it hasn’t launched any person to spaces in about a decade. Also, it has been about 50 years that we made any move to the moon and now with ELON MUSK, it looks like NASA woke up to its duty.
Elon Musk has a vision of making humans an interplanetary specie with the aim of making Mars our second home also NASA started a project called Artemis 1 which aims to land humans on the moon in 2024.
This is now where I see some issues. Will NASA be able to make the moon mission possible by 2024 or will they just work with Elon Musk for the red planet? Although, the NASA moon program will only cost about $40 billion, it looks like the moon is also a place for possibilities.
Since we have been to the moon in the past, it can be easy to say that we can colonize the moon and mine water out which could be splitted into hydrogen and oxygen which is a needed fuel for rockets as well as it can be useful for other purposes.
Is the Artemis 1 moon program possible, will there a possibility of NASA ever colonize any other planet? Are we not expecting too much from both NASA and SpaceX?