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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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