The future - everyone imagines the future in their own way. Some people dream of living in a society where the main role is assigned exclusively to systems and machines, and a person is one with a machine. Others imagine colorful time travel and even travel through parallel universes. However, this time, reality will not offend the dreamers. The future portends the presence of all the blessings that one can only dream of today, possibly also flights to other planets and even stars.
It would seem that the peak of space exploration has already passed, but this is far from the case. The space program at the end of the last century was based on unhealthy superpower competition. The desire to bypass each other, of course, stimulated rocket science, manned astronautics and many other branches of science necessary for space flights.
However, at that time everything was done in incredible haste. The road to the stars was literally paved from the corpses of experimental animals, people and the wreckage of spaceships. Haste led to fatal design miscalculations and many seemingly promising projects over and over again suffered fatal failures, taking away the lives and hopes of all those who experienced them. Nevertheless, the world received its reliable path, if not to distant space, then at least to Orbit. This opened up gigantic prospects for Humanity. Scientists were so dumbfounded by the possibilities that opened up to them that for some time the development of delivery vehicles stopped.
At that time, all attention was focused on the launches of autonomous unmanned stations, thanks to which we today know what one or another planet of the native Solar System looks like and consists of. Geolocation satellites were launched into the Earth's orbit almost instantly, one after another. It is thanks to them that we can use navigators and other devices that make it easier for us to find our location and plot a route. Found their place in Orbit and huge telescopes and, of course, military satellites.
And although the arms race stimulated the space industry, it also slowed it down at the same time. The military was attracted and attracted most of all by the deployment of orbital weapon systems, spy satellites and secret communications satellites. At that time, flying to other planets was of no real interest to anyone except scientists. The arms race has significantly slowed down, the Soviet Union has ceased to exist and a very dangerous tendency has taken shape to lose space technologies.
Today, state corporations are in no hurry to explore space due to lack of funding. Modern politicians and investors are not interested in projects that do not give any profit for at least one year. Interest in space is gradually decreasing, ordinary people do not need it, because the problem of resettlement is not so acute yet. Moreover, the laws of large states pose obstacles to inventors who design their own missiles. So, in the Russian Federation, even having built an innovative engine and a rocket of a fundamentally new shape, an individual cannot test it in action. It takes a long time to get permission, and as practice shows, at the end of the endless bureaucracy, the inventor will be refused.
It may seem to many that the space program has stopped. Fortunately, this is not the case. Already today, the American billionaire, inventor and founder of the private company SpaceX, Elon Musk, is working on new ways of delivering people and cargo to orbit and even on a flight to Mars. At first, he didn't do much. His projects failed one after another, but that did not stop him.
Today, thanks to Elon, the world has prototypes of modern launch vehicles that can not only easily put a ship into orbit, but also return to Earth on their own. He was the first to understand how to reduce the cost of space flights and decided to move away from the main technological solution of modern space corporations - disposable launch vehicles. According to only rough estimates, the introduction of reusable launch vehicles will reduce the cost of delivering people or cargo to Orbit by 20,000 times! Thus, in a short time, space flight will become available even to the most ordinary person who does not have billions of dollars in capital! But this is not at all motivated by a brilliant entrepreneur, he dreams of flying to Mars. He, like no one else, knows that the US and Russian governments are hiding the truth about the red planet. According to his calculations, Mars is the most suitable candidate for colonization, and this is known to the leaders of the space powers.
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However, it is very strange that despite numerous attempts to build a spacecraft for manned flights to Mars - not a single person went there. All developments and drawings mysteriously disappeared, only indirect mentions remained. Elon told the whole world that by 2030 mankind will begin the real exploration of Mars. However, NASA, in response to this, not only criticized the idea, but also launched a campaign to convince the public that it was impossible to colonize the red planet.
Such attempts only fueled the billionaire's enthusiasm, and he and his team of scientists have already developed a project for a promising manned spacecraft that can not only deliver a person to Mars, but also establish a colony there. The ship itself is not primitive. Elon decided to apply all his ideas in it. The spacecraft has a minimum of fuel tanks on board and has an impressive amount of usable space. The flight to Mars on it will not only not seem cramped, but even astronauts will like it. The ship will be equipped with many entertainment systems. Including powerful computers, gyms and bars. The spacecraft will first be launched into a near-earth orbit, then, within a few days, fuel tanks and engines will be docked to it. At the last stage of pre-flight preparation, the crew will be delivered on board. The ship will not only be able to fly to the red planet and land on it, but also take off from it and return to Earth. The flight takes such a huge amount of fuel that it will be enough in excess. We can safely say that this is the first reusable interplanetary transport ship!
Everyone knows that anything can be declared, but it is very problematic to implement the declared. However, many believe in Ilona and know that he will succeed. He will be able to build the first model of an interplanetary ship by 2020. He will have time not only to build it, but also to test it. When the time comes to go to Mars, a reliable and proven ship with an equally reliable crew on board will take off.