NASA wants to send humans to Jupiter in the 2040s

[vger]

LOL... NASA wants to do WHAT?

Give me a break, we haven't even sent a human into an orbit around another LOCAL planet, and we're talking about Jupiter?

[Pipcard]

This is just a mission design study done in 2003, it's not part of NASA's official roadmap for the future (yet).

[Voyager55]

"NASA *WANTS* to send humans to Jupiter in the 2040's"

Just like I *want* to be a secret lost child of Bill Gates and destined to inherit his entire fortune upon death.

[GoSlash27]

No funding = ain't happening.

Best,

-Slashy

[ghostbuzzer7]

Depending on how funding goes. I figure SpaceX is going to make a move to land on Europa. After all, there is a movie called the Europa Report in which took the Europa One capsule 19 months to get there. Not saying it will happen but hey it might be true.

[Kryten]

Depending on how funding goes. I figure SpaceX is going to make a move to land on Europa. After all, there is a movie called the Europa Report in which took the Europa One capsule 19 months to get there. Not saying it will happen but hey it might be true.

Despite what you may have seen on certain sites, SpaceX is a launch provider, not some hybrid of NASA and Jesus. They have zero motive to land anything on Europa without being paid, and they don't remotely have the resources to do so independently is they decided they did.

[billbobjebkirk]

With regards to this study, this was a 2003 study that concluded it was plausible that this could be done had NASA adopted DRM 3.0 in the early 2000s.

[problemecium]

...to Jupiter in 2040.

Sooo they're launching now, right? xD

[Guest]

Sure, they got local "Jool-5" disease.

[Rath]

If an asteroid hits the USA and does a moderate amount of damage(say, like hitting Romney) NASA will get a lot more funding.

[theend3r]

And I'd like to visit a few other star systems tommorow. Unfortunately the probability of both is more or less the same.

If an asteroid hits the USA and does a moderate amount of damage(say, like hitting Romney) NASA will get a lot more funding.

Imagine the conspiracy theories after that.

[SmallFatFetus]

NASA wants to do a lot of things. What NASA can do is very limited by their budget.

[ScriptKitt3h]

While I don't disagree with the fact that NASA is not getting the funding it needs and that the US is absolutely falling behind in space exploration, has it occurred to any of you guys that even just TRYING to be optimistic about human spaceflight in the near future might help push other you come into contact with to support it?

[Pipcard]

While I don't disagree with the fact that NASA is not getting the funding it needs and that the US is absolutely falling behind in space exploration, has it occurred to any of you guys that even just TRYING to be optimistic about human spaceflight in the near future might help push other you come into contact with to support it?

That's exactly what I've been talking about. With the kind of attitude I'm seeing here, we'll never get anywhere.

Instead it's all this defeatist talk about how "no one else will ever care about space. Let's just give up."

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[PB666]

Space flight is so much easier when one does not have to leave th early planning phase.

[Findthepin1]

In the Jupiter system there's not much that a human can do that a robot cannot. If you're drilling for ice, a robot can do that. If you're exploring oceans underground, a robot can do that. If you're planting a flag, a robot can do that. Unless there's life there, I see no reason for humans to go until we've used up all the space in less hostile environments like Mars or Earth first.

[Pipcard]

Actually, the plan (which again, is just a design study by a relatively small team) was to have robots on Europa that would be tele-operated by humans on Callisto.

[Zzabur]

We as in America? Or we as in the human race?

Plenty of Cosmonauts have been in space more than 6 months at a time, on Mir.

I am european, so i wouldn't speak for american people.

You're right, some people could live for 14 monthes in Mir, though it's still protected by earth's magnetosphere. I doubt anyone would surive the same trip outside Earth's magnetosphere.

[Bill Phil]

I am european, so i wouldn't speak for american people.

You're right, some people could live for 14 monthes in Mir, though it's still protected by earth's magnetosphere. I doubt anyone would surive the same trip outside Earth's magnetosphere.

Eh..

It depends on the amount of shielding.