Re: "Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very soon"

On 9/9/2024 8:34 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 9/9/2024 2:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/9/2024 3:24 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:

On 9/9/2024 4:09 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very soon"
    https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-land-on- mars-19752466.php
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“The SpaceX CEO said the rocket will land on Mars in two years.”
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“There's only a certain window every two years when Earth and Mars are lined up and a journey to the Red Planet is efficient, and Elon Musk is trying to send Starship out when that happens in 2026.”
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Bold.  Unmanned of course.
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Tickets will be going on sale fairly soon for the second trip.  I suspect that it will be one way.

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I suppose it's also possible to miss Mars by an inch, fly around it and return to Earth. It worked when flying to the Moon (at least for the Baltimore Gun Club), so surely it will work with Mars...

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Got food for the return trip and a place to put human waste ?  Oxygen and a way to get rid of the excess CO2 ?
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How were they going to handle that once they landed on Mars?

Going there, I assume that they have a plan.  Coming back, I doubt it. These type of trips tend to be one way.  Just refueling the Starship will be incredibly difficult at best.  I would guess some sort of CO2 + H2O -> CH4 + O2 reactor.
I have no idea what was on the Mayflower coming back to Europe but it was not people other than the remaining crew who survived the winter.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower#First_winter
Lynn