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Space travel is a tricky subject, although technology on Earth is developing at tremendous speeds the same cannot really be said for space travel. If we cast our minds back over five decades ago you will remember that the mission to the moon captured every persons imagination. But not much has really been done since then.

NASA have for the last few years been developing a shuttle called Ares for the new constellation program. The basic purpose of the program is to actually gain much more experience in humans and crafts spending time away from Earth and developing technologies to go further into outer space.

Similar to the Apollo program the spacecraft will first fly a low Earth orbit, NASA has been working to retire its current shuttle fleet and begin flying the Ares program by 2015. It is rumored that a manned mission to Mars will not be until after 2030, but before that astronauts would instead visit a close asteroid.

Personally I think this is moving much to slow, by the time NASA attempts to visit Mars over 100 years would have passed since visiting the moon. I mean space exploration holds the key to life and the key to cure illnesses. By exploring space we get a lot more intelligent.

But will the Ares and constellation program be the future of any kind of space travel? Well it could certainly be, I mean millions of dollars is being invested into it and we all know that the Apollo program had had its day. They need to make a shuttle that is a lot faster. Mars is the next step, but what after Mars? Where do we go from there on? Its very hard to contemplate, but with the current shuttles there is no way that they would be able to go beyond the distance of Mars.

As well as safety most of the effort should be pushed towards actually making the shuttles faster, for true space exploration, something needs to be created to travel near to the speed of light. If this occurs then we are not only limited to just exploring our galaxy but can explore them all. I mean Earth is only going to last a certain amount of years, before the atmosphere changes, so humans need to find another way to survive. Whatever develops I am certain that it will definitely be something of great public interest.

Author: Musa Aykac
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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