The Ninety Day Project Essay

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“We're a crossroads today, we either muster the courage to go or we face the possibility of stagnation and decay.”. Words spoken by Dr. Robert Zubrin, President of the Mars Society. These words have been seen as a catalyst for space enthusiasts around the world. Mankind's next step into the future hangs on the possibility that man could move out into the universe and colonize foreign worlds. The cost of such missions would not be as unrealistic as one would imagine, Mars could be colonized for future habitation, and imagine the intellectual inspiration that would result from such a seemingly insurmountable task. What human civilization need is to be challenged and the only way to do that is to push our limits and put a man on Mars.

The cost of the mission isn't as unrealistic as previously thought. The first plans that were proposed to congress in the late Nineteen Eighties, dubbed “The Ninety Day Report”, the plan proposed an extremely elaborate plan to construct an intricate series of orbital ship constructors, and Lunar bases that would build an interplanetary space ship that could cost the United States Government a whopping 450 Billion dollars(). This plan would have been considered …show more content…
Many NASA scientist argue that mars is a very unpractical to attempt a mission to. They say that we have enough problems to deal with already so we should hold off on such a daunting undertaking. The phrase ,“If wee can go to the moon, we can....”, inspired so many people to seek scientific careers and invent new and amazing things such as computers, the Internet, MRI machines and so much more. Imagine what a manned mission to mars would inspire people to do. We could cure cancer, cure world hunger, or even bring about world peace. The fact is that Human civilization thrives on challenges. If we push out limits then nothing will be able to stop us from achieving any

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