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7 The Biosphere
The Future of Space Exploration
For decades, many different countries, including the USA and Russia, have
been exploring space and trying to learn as much as possible about what is
out there in the universe. In 1969, Americans were the first to send a man on
the moon, and since then, there have been many other missions to explore
space. The future of space exploration is very exciting and uncertain.
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is an American
organisation that is responsible for space exploration and travel. So far,
NASA has been sending a good deal of humans to the moon, and they
will also send people to Mars and further into space. NASA wants to know
more about Mars and find out if there is water on the planet.
Water on Mars could offer us the possibility of finding life on Mars or creating
a human settlement one day in the future. NASA is also developing
new spaceships, including the Orion. The Orion is based on the Apollo
spaceships. Six Apollo missions successfully landed humans on the moon.
The Orion is an updated, state-of-the-art spaceship that is bigger and more
technologically advanced. It has the possibility of carrying four astronauts
into space.
Louis Friedman is the head of The Planetary Society. Friedman believes we
will learn to live on Mars one day, but he does not know exactly how we
will do this. He believes that it will be very difficult to travel past Mars in
our solar system. Of course, there is still the possibility of exploring space
beyond Mars, but most people think this will be with the use of improved
technology. We won’t know what the future of space travel and exploration
will be like until we see it with our own eyes.
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