‘If the first 10,000 pioneers to Mars can go without water for 10 years, everything should be hunky-dory’
In the year 2027, two sleek spacecraft dubbed Raptor 1 and Raptor 2 will finally land on Mars after a gruelling 243-day journey. The following day a further 3,000 spacecraft – Raptors 3 to 3002 – will land next to them. This is a fact. The colonisation of Mars will have begun.
Ever since Nasa stopped flying astronauts to the moon, many people have got a bit bored with space exploration. But manned space travel is now more than an ever a necessity as people are getting so fed up with the lack of Vodafone coverage. Earth is doomed to a slow death through climate change or a quick one through an invasion of Scientologists from Planet Theta, and the sooner we get the hell out of here the better. The good news is that Wernher von Braun has already designed the technology to get to Mars. Man got to the moon easily enough in 1969; all we need to do is build a rocket 1,000 times more powerful. Simples.
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