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NASA Scientist Says 30 MINUTE Trips to MARS are Attainable




THE NASA scientist who recently claimed the space agency has plans for a spaceship to get to Mars in just three days, has stepped it up a notch by now claiming that they will able to get it there in just 30 minutes.

Phil Lubin announced in a video blog for NASA – NASA 360 – that they are working on laser propulsion technology which could get a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in as little as three days.

The space agency describes a craft which is currently being developed and would rely on a technology known to experts as “photonic propulsion” which would allow spaceships to explore space at 30 per cent of the speed of light.

However, the scientist behind the claim has now said that it could take just 30 minutes in the future when the technology has become more advanced.

He wrote in a paper published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society: “As an example, on the eventual upper end, a full-scale (50-70 GW) DE-STAR 4 – Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and Exploration – will propel a wafer scale spacecraft with a one meter sail to about 26 percent the speed of light in about 10 minutes.

“[It would] reach Mars (1 AU) in 30 minutes, pass Voyager 1 in less than 3 days, pass 1,000 AU in 12 days and reach Alpha Centauri in about 15 years.”

As a result, the spaceship would be travelling at 174.3 million miles an hour, which would be too fast for humans and better suited to robots.

Lubin continues: “It turns out to get to relativistic speeds, just using different technology, it would take the same amount of energy for roughly the same amount of time.

“Humans are extremely fragile and require a lot of support. Robotic missions are much better suited for interstellar exploration in the future.”

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