No Comments Written by Ronald on December 24, 2007 – 9:46 am

Last night I saw Mars. It was the perfect combination. Mars was as closest to earth, while the moon was full. Mars was a small red sparkle under the moon. It was amazing that I was able to see something 54 Million miles away. You won’t be able to Mars that good again until the year 2016, so I’m hoping that everyone got a chance to see it.

The international space station moves at 17k miles per hour. Mars was 54 million miles away, if there was a shuttle moving at a continues rate of 17k miles per hour towards Mars it would take 132 days to get to Mars.

OK, now let’s say we created a shuttle that moved 4 times the speed of the last one. That would be 68k miles per hour, at that speed it would only take 33 days. Which is only a month and a few days.

What NASA and other space organizations need to do is come up with something similar to that speed or even faster. I believe that a giant magnetic gun blast could send space vehicles flying at that speed and safe atomic energy for the rest of the way. Like a way to use Atomic energy but for a not so big explosions… but big enough to safely thrust a vehicle to Mars.

About The Author: Ronald

I am Ronald A. Richardson, champion of the underworld!

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