Nasa scientists believe that manned missions could fly to Jupiter and Saturn in less than 50 years.
Pasadena – What happens to us when our home planet is threatened with imminent doom? Where are we going? In the satire “Don’t Look Up” (* FR reported) recently published on Netflix, the solution seems simple: Those who can afford it get into an exclusive spaceship and flee towards space to colonize a new planet. This seemingly dystopian fantasy seems to be attainable soon. We do not yet have to flee from an enormous catastrophe, but the range of motion of humanity is increasing.
Soon humanity could at least travel into space. Nasa already has plans to send people to Jupiter and Saturn by 2080.
Already possible at the end of the 2020 camp on the moon
As reported by t3n.de , manned missions to exoplanets 40 light years away could start in the 23rd century. This assumption is based on a paper entitled “Avoiding the Great Filter: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World”. A team of researchers led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) worked on the document. It lists a model that is based, among other things, on data from space research. Using this empirical data, scientists were able to roughly calculate when people should be able to travel to certain places in our solar system.
Accordingly, a base camp could be set up on the moon as early as the end of the 2020s, reports t3n . A decade later, a trip to Mars would be conceivable. If we fast forward another forty to fifty years, humanity could fly to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. However, on one condition. We would first have to deal with the problems on our home planet. In other words: getting a grip on climate change, pandemics and the like. * FR is an offer from IPPEN.Media.
