Donald Trump, the reigning president of the United States who will face the election on November 3 has assured Americans that the country will be the first in the world to land humans on Mars. The president also added that NASA will land the first women on the moon by 2024.

“America will land the first woman on the Moon and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars, we’re getting very close,” said Trump, at his campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin.

The comments of Donald Trump comes at a time when SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced his plans to take touchdown Mars using the already developed Starship. In an interaction with Space.com, Musk claimed that the first uncrewed mission will be launched within four years, and it will be followed by a manned mission.

Recently, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has said that a human settlement on the moon will be developed by 2028. However, skeptics believe that NASA’s timeline is unrealistic, especially at a time when the space agency is facing a lack of funding.

The dangers posed by space radiation will be one of the major challenges that will bother NASA during their upcoming Mars missions. A few months back, Samantha Rolfe, a renowned astrobiologist had claimed that the Mars missions planned by NASA and SpaceX could be suicidal. According to Rolfe, astronauts who reach the Red Planet will be exposed to deadly space radiation, as the Red Planet does not have its own magnetic field.

Due to the absence of the magnetic field, the atmosphere provides very little shelter to space radiation. The astrobiologist also claimed that it is unethical to expose astronauts to lethal radiation that could cause serious health problems.

The post Donald Trump assures human Mars landing amid space radiation dilemma appeared first on The Gulf Indians.

On September 22, the International Space Station (ISS) performed a very dangerous maneuver to avoid a collision from a small piece of space junk. According to NASA, there could be more than 170 million pieces of space junks in the earth’s orbit, and it ranges from damaged rockets to malfunctioned satellites.

Amid this chaos, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, launched its 14th group of 60 satellites from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, as part of the Starlink Broadband project.

After the Sunday’s launch, the number of Starlink satellites in the earth’s orbit became 800. According to Starlink, the ultimate aim of the company is to deploy 42,000 satellites on the earth’s orbit. SpaceX claims that the aim of these Starlink satellites is to provide high-speed internet in all nooks of the world.

Even though Elon Musk’s Starlink project is receiving positive responses from all corners, a section of astronomers believes that this rise in the number of satellites could negatively affect stargazing, and may even trap humans on the earth.

A few months back, the Royal Astronomical Society had expressed their concern over the rising number of Starlink constellations in the low-earth orbit.

“The Royal Astronomical Society notes with concern the launch of the new SpaceX Starlink constellation of satellites into low-Earth orbit, and the potential impact of this and other programs on views of the night sky and on astronomical research. Increasing the number of satellites so significantly presents a challenge to ground-based astronomy,” said the Royal Astronomical Society, in a recent statement.

Several space scientists also suggest that thousands of satellites in the earth’s orbit may trap humans, and could even affect future space missions, as humans are now trying to broaden their horizon to emerge as a multi-planetary species.

The post Amid rising space junks, SpaceX launched 60 more satellites to earth’s orbit appeared first on The Gulf Indians.

Now, while talking at the Humans to Mars summit, Musk has warned that establishing a human colony on Mars will be very challenging, and it may even result in the deaths of Earthlings on the Red Planet.

Musk, during his talk, revealed that the journey to Mars will not be a hard task, but setting up a self-sustained colony will be challenging. The SpaceX founder also warned that the upcoming manned mission to Mars is not designed for the faint-hearted, as there are chances for losing their lives during the trip.

“I want to emphasize that this is a very hard and dangerous difficult thing. Not for the faint of heart. Good chance you’ll die, it’s going to be tough going, but it will be pretty glorious if it works out,” said Musk, as quoted by CNBC.

Elon Musk has previously revealed that the future government which will be set up on Mars will be based on direct democracy. He also made it clear that all Martians will have a direct role in determining the decision-making process of the government. Musk is now planning to put a million people on Mars by 2050, but many skeptics consider this timeline an unrealistic one.

The post Is Elon Musk carrying out a suicidal Mars colonization mission? appeared first on The Gulf Indians.