When 200,000 people decided to take part in the Mars One project, which aims to create the first colony on Mars, all of them definitely took into account the fact that this trip will be one way.
They understand that they can die without even reaching the planet, and if they do, they will most likely die too. And these assumptions are very difficult to dispute, especially considering that everything that has ever been sent to the Red Planet has never returned back to Earth.
However, according to NASA, it is clearly too early to write obituaries. Since 2011, the aerospace agency has been considering the private company SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft as a potential candidate for use in various Martian missions, one of which will be the delivery of a new Martian rover to the Red Planet in 2020. But according to NASA, this is not the only thing this spacecraft can help solve.
Agency scientific analysts believe that a modified version of the Dragon spacecraft can actually be safely sent to Mars. One of the features of this spacecraft will be the ability to transport a small rocket. This rocket can be used as a transport ship to send various scientific samples from Mars back to Earth.
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It should be borne in mind that this is just an idea that NASA does not even plan to consider at least until 2022 and until the moment when the rover, scheduled for shipping in 2020, does not find something really worthwhile on Mars that would be worth trying by all means. send back to Earth for study.
As for the Mars One colonists, it is likely that by this time the necessary spacecraft with the possibility of returning people to Earth will hardly be created. Nevertheless, if scientists can create the necessary apparatus capable of delivering at least a pebble from Mars to our home planet, then the creation of such apparatus that can also take people back to Earth on vacation, if desired, will only be a matter of time.
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