I'm almost 71 now, and I hope I live long enough to see Man set foot on Mars.

Having served on a nuclear submarine that was over 360 feet long, had three decks, both extracted its oxygen and distilled its potable water from seawater, had plenty of storage for food, operated in a gravity present environment, was relatively comfortable, and could surface in an emergency...I sincerely wish the Mars crew good luck with a mission extending beyond a year.

In my 70s now and wish I could be here to see this achieved. Glad I got to see A. Shepard go sub orbit to Armstrong go manual safe landing on the moon. Best wishes to all future pioneers!!

I was 8 years old when I watched the first men land on the Moon, and I've been waiting for them to get to Mars ever since. I hope I'll still be alive to see it happen.

You go. I will stay home.

Best of luck to the first crew to Mars, most likely they won't be seen again, it won't be as easy as these video's portray that trip to be, the time it will take, how almost every mechanical device must work, the Van Allen radiation belt to go thru, the need to get along with one another for such a long period of time, and the space hazards as the vehicles travel thru space beyond the Moon, the odds are not in their favor, lots of luck.

In one word: ''Deadly.'' Goooood luck to the first adventurers...do send postcards!

I once went on a Mars simulator at an amusement park when I was a little girl. It was a bumpy ride, took about 10 minutes!

By the time they build something I'd feel comfortable taking that trip on, I'll be long gone but I do hope I live to see people land on Mars

Just seeing all of these older people here wanting to see us walk on mars is making me want it to happen even sooner. Thank all of you old timers for giving us the stepping stones to make this happen.

Send me to mars , i'm already spending all my time alone 🥲 . Being stuck in a spaceship with 2-3 people is an upgrade to my social situation 😅

Let’s get the launch and landing right before we start worrying about the journey

First they have to figure out how to get to the moon which never seems to happen. :(

It took 25 years to get JWST in Space, so I don't see a manned space craft that can stay on Mars for practical reasons and usage for at least 25 more years, and that's being super optimistic 😂

ayo star wars is about to be real. i use to dream of walking on mars. i can not wait wait for this man. i hope i live to see this

I'm going to challenge the first part of this video - establishing a Moonbase as the initial step. According to this idea, we have to lift all the Mars equipment that we will need out of the Earth's gravity well, drop it into the Moon's gravity well, and then later, when all is ready lift it out of the Moon's gravity well again. But surely if the Mars rocket assembly process was all completed in Earth orbit, we would obviate the extra mass required to get on and off the Moon. In other words, unless you manufacture the propellant and necessary hardware actually on the Moon, you don't win anything by going there first.

Not even mentioning Mars or even the permanent Moon base, just the phrase “Lunar Gateway Space Station” brings me so much joy and chills 😅☺️

Bone loss, muscle atrophy, blood pooling - gonna be a hell of a ride. I would be surprised if they could even survive returning to Earth.

Half of me thinks, what's the point in going to Mars, and then the other half of me thinks, we might as well because we'll never get any further than that anyway because of the distances and the time it would take to get there is beyond anything a human could withstand.

If landing on Mars is going to be an island hopping venture, such as first having a base on the moon and then jumping off from there, don't hold your breath, if the last 55 years progress can be extrapolated into the future, ain't no way it's going to happen in 200 or more years. It's nice to dream but a dream without a goal is a hallucination

Short stay using a gravity assist around Venus is incredible. Imagine being the crew on that ship. Not only do you get to see Mars up close, but you also get to see Venus, too.

Space is so vast i wonder how far we will travel but we have a few billion years to come up with something

It will be just like the trip to the moon, pretend and imagined.

We are still very prehistoric when you come to space travel. Rockets are like old school

400 day return? That is almost unbelivable, I think the plan will change as we get closer and technology gets better.

imagine being on a coach flight for 2 years?

Nuclear thermal rocket engine sounds like something Wil-E-Cyote would chase the Roadrunner with, but with DARPA involved, probably much more likely to work. Very interesting!

Love the TKS nod in one of the animations! 😍

Until the Trip to Mars can be made in less than a week I am fine right here on earth .

Not sure if Mars can be a habitable planet considering that it’s gravity is a fraction to that on Earth, it’s just not suited for human life, It’s probably a better idea to construct Mall-sized living space ecosystems with either centripetal or centrifugal motion to create artificial gravity. We could print the parts in space and assemble it all in space. Sure, do the Mars stations and exploration but gravity is the elephant in the room that needs to be front and center in the continuing need to journey out into the heavens. Without solving Earth-like gravity problem, we might as well scrape the idea of routine long-hall space exploration.

Excellent. Very concise overview. Thank you!

This is good! Wow, lots of comments. I appreciate the work you put into this. Thank you for the entertainment.. I watch The Space Race often.

A 2 year journey without gravity. I'll have to see it to believe it. Until they work out a viable artifical gravity system, any manned venture to Mars is going to be difficult if not impossible.

Wonderful cartoon and plan. Now, all they have to do is figure out how not to die from exposure to radiation after a few months on the Mars.

An unmanned mission to Mars is one thing, but a manned mission to Mars is something far more challenging and dangerous

I'm looking forward to mankind's progress in space and the mission to Mars.

All this money spent on this pipe dream could be better spent on solving the problems on this Earth planet !

Just wonderful! I feel so upbeat! Ever since my childhood, space exploration never failed to ignite my imagination.

Just got Apple TV and we are watching For All Mankind. It’s a great show and wonderful to thinking that these things HAVE and WILL come to pass!

Exciting times, I hope I’m still around to see mard landing 👍🌙🚀🚀

A hundred years from now we'll still be planning a Mars mission. Just an opinion. A bit like nuclear fusion.

This would make a good science fiction movie. That's about all this is. Even the tiny part about colonizing the Moon... infrastructure there... living there... manufacturing and processing facilities there... producing and making what you need there... If the countries of the world got together and attempted it, that one little part alone is still a pipe dream.

I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon when I was 6 years old. Still remember it like it was yesterday. I hope to watch someone repeat that feat on Mars.

The cosmic radiation may be the most difficult thing to overcome for these missions.

At night, Mars temperature is 100 to 190 degrees below zero (F). They should definitely bring a warm sweater.

We better work out a cure for cancer first, the radiation for the long stay would damage the human body severely.

Nobody ever talks about the "Moondogs"!

The disc shape must be launched in pie slices/ Vandenberg facility.

Sorry to say 'Not quite there yet' is a bit of an understatement. Just a few scientific impossibilities to overcome before we get to Star Trek. Travelling Faster than Light, Mechanical teleportation -that sort of thing.

Wonderful! ❤

Build it!

I wanted more of what a journey would be like

My thoughts are that it's a crazy thing expecting people to travel for two years in such a confined object and an out of this world experience,the astronauts must be very brave but what about the families they leave behind,I think it's an impossible mission, just remember how lighthouse keepers found it difficult to cope in isolation for several weeks so imagine years,ya can't imagine it.

Nice thing is NASA when they land can go for a drink at SpaceX Mars bar.

Very interesting video!.Man on Mars is a must........I watched the 1st men walk on the moon, and hope to see the 1st astronauts walk on Mars (that's the only thing on my bucket list) at 74 years old I hope they speed the whole process up!

Hope the journey will happen in our lifetime!

I am really loving the details here, and the idea that innovation is going to make things quicker and easier than we know at this moment. Great video.

Great goals but seems highly unlikely that this will ever happen due to the costs and risks involved.

I hope I get to see this in my lifetime.

We are going to have to develop a [TSH] Telescoping Star-ship HAB 10 to 12 levels to build the first over 400d foot for gravity. 1 70 ft 6 to 8 docks with 2 HABs should transport 50 crew. 2 HUB, 4 tranker, 2 Transports/10 crew HAB, 2 Cargo/Transports.

I sure hope we land on Mars during my lifetime! (I am not in my first youth) I would really like to witness that!

My children’s grandchildren will still be in the lifetime of planning a trip to Mars lol.

I’m sure SpaceX will greet them and take them out to dinner a few days after arriving.

I think that instead of throwing away all those billions of dollars on a impossible mars mission, they should try to use that money to save our planet

If the starship fleet of 1k is realized than there is no reason we won’t be able to build small star trek sized ships in space. Its within reach in the near future!!

Have you guys forgotten about SpaceX? I thought they were going to send the Starship to Mars and build a colony.

We are two hundred years away from going to Mars

2 years in a tin can? air supply? food? , water? heating, power? radiation shields? All these need to be sorted out just on the way there. Once on Mars, a liveable sturdy domicile with air supply? food? , water? heat? power, radiation shields? Would all need to be erected before the first ship even arrives on Mars. The resource logistics for such a venture, would be critical path to the survival of the crew. If you had sufficient resources to get there , to last the duration of your stay on Mars, and the return journey back to earth, you would only need to worry about everything else that could go wrong. Thus sickness of crew, contagion of unknown viruses, life threatening accidents , malfunctioning of critical systems and equipment, and a myriad of other unexpected things, like meteor storms, dust storms, etc, that could be deadly to the crew. If this venture /mission was truly ever undertaken, the life expectancy, or survival of the astronauts would be minimum. That is , not many, if any, would ever return safely back home to earth alive. There are just way too many deadly factors , any one of them, which could result in a total mission failure. So dream on, and fantasise all you like, but the odds , if you really consider them, are stacked against a successful mission.

Artificial gravity would make the journey so much easier for humans!

This was a great video, but I ESPECIALLY loved seeing some of my videos featured in it! Thanks for the shoutout! Really fun. As I've been talking with some NASA engineers and scientists lately, there really does seem to be a big push from within the community to either send humans to Venus before Mars (although not to land) or, as you mentioned, to at least travel to Mars via a Venusian gravity assist. Venus is just far easier (and cheaper and faster) to travel to and return from than Mars. Again, not to land, but to study the planet from a few hundred or thousand kilometers above. In either case, very exciting to get to visit not just one but TWO planets on our way to a Mars mission! We'll be making a video on our channel about this soon, but really cool to see it mentioned here.

❤ thanks for sharing 👍

,awesome ,keep moving forward

My brother's first job out of college was with Mac Dac, building bits of the ISS, or the Boeing Space Station, it's nick name after Boeing bought macdac. We've been science geeks since birth, Dad was USAF electronics and Motor Pool trainer, If it drove on base he could drive it, and teach you how to as well. thanks for the videos

These intros are getting REALLY good. Been watching every video on both your channels for over a year and just want to say good job team 👏 👏

I want in-flight snacks, and they had better be serving dinner.

Mike Collins mustache always makes me chuckle

I can't be bothered to watch this. Could someone please explain to me how NASA proposes to keep the astronauts from dying of cancer in the hard radiation of space? Also, if they did get to Mars alive, what do they propose to do about the incredibly toxic environment there, and continued hard radiation? The seldom-admitted truth about the ISS is that it is actually in the upper fringes of the atmosphere ( that's why it constantly needs to be 'boosted' ) and is well within the protection of the planet. Otherwise it would be a deathtrap. Robots exploring space makes sense. Humans exploring space is idiocy, until the robots find something worthwhile out there. Even then, robots can probably do it better.

I hope I live long enough to see a thriving community of humans in space.

Outstanding.

We haven't even been to the moon. Don't hold your breath for Mars

Don t worry they will film it in a studio like the moon landings ,nobody was hurt😂

The blooming space-age blows my mind and inspires me to get healthy and finish my education so that I can experience these monumental times... Imagine what the world could accomplish together...

We will see if this happens. Radiation will be the real threat

You need a ship that has a rotating section so you can have gravity and avoid the zero gravity health issues. Then you need to shield the ship from cosmic radiation for the journey. These things are essential.

Where do I sign up

The long duration mission actually sounds safer if we can't use a rotating vehicle. On the other hand if we can then the short duration mission would clearly be better. Its possible (really not that difficult) to simulate 1G in space with a teather and counterweight.

We make it to Mars, we colonise Mars, we make its atmosphere breathable, then where to next.

As the crew of the Mars-bound spacecraft prepared for their historic journey, anticipation and excitement filled the air. The spacecraft, equipped with cutting-edge technology, embarked on a months-long odyssey through the vastness of space. Even the robotic assistants on board joined in the fun, programmed to deliver lighthearted jokes and puns during routine updates..

Where did all this information come from? Specifically the Artemis 10+ missions and Mars mission durations? Adding your sources to the description would allow people to get more info and would be a great way to maintain credibility!

If humans would put our egos aside we could be making so many strides in exploring and understanding the universe. Humans are the weakest link and most expensive part of these missions. let the robots go explore and we can figure out how to join them in the future!

One step at the time,one journey at the time,one Galaxie at the time ⏲️ ✨️ 🙏

i like how you, as well as nasa, make it sound so doable :) i wish humans lived longer. hopefully it happens before im an old man

It is sad the US did not settling the Moon 45 years ago.

Loved this video. Great to see a lifelong dream of exploration of space become a reality. Thanks for the time your team takes to enlighten our minds & renew our aspirations

Wow!

No human being has ever and will never leave the Earth until death.

Well, the parts about human curiosity and determination were spot on. But humans will have to wait a couple of generations before they see humans on the surface of Mars. The videogame dreamers of today who think they're gonna see it will be long gone before it happens.

It's fascinating to think about other planets, but to leave our blue marble to go live on a dead dust ball is insane.

As much as I love the idea of humans managing to land on Mars, I find it impossible to imagine anyone surviving the journey with the technology and speeds currently available. The human body just plain isn't designed to live outside of gravity and natural oxygen conditions for such extended time. We are only in the infant stages of studying the impact of short stays on the space station. The changes in body dynamics is profound and much of them may be permanent. The eyes change, the pressures in the brain change, the brain itself changes, bone density changes. It's an enormous dream to think humans can overcome all of this any time soon. My hunch is we need decades of unmanned missions to figure out what, if anything, Mars offers people back on earth. I can't see how living there is worth striving for without first testing long range living on the moon...Sure hope I'm wrong but I am not at all optimistic any of this will happen for decades if not much longer.

Cool! Merci.