5 futuristic concepts for NASA missions

[Peter1469]

5 futuristic concepts for NASA missions

Here are some cool concepts for future NASA missions.

Much of the science performed at NASA borders on fiction. Their job is to bring it into reality. One team intimately familiar with this task at the space agency is called COMPASS. Since 2006, their job has been to take the most preliminary ideas for space exploration and mold them into real, executable plans. A few of those plans have come to fruition, some are currently being worked on, and many more have been abandoned. All, however, are bold visions of future NASA missions – simultaneously fascinating and inspiring.

Here are five of COMPASS' coolest designs:

see those 5 concepts at the link.

[MMC]

Lets concentrate on getting that base built on the moon and crank up building the Ships in Space.

[Peter1469]

Lets concentrate on getting that base built on the moon and crank up building the Ships in Space.

Yes, building in space is the way to go. Smaller craft can ferry people from earth and the moon to spacecraft.

[MMC]

Yes, building in space is the way to go. Smaller craft can ferry people from earth and the moon to spacecraft.

Not to mention it will be easier to launch SATS from the moon.

[Sergeant Gleed]

The only concept that matters is building that nuclear missile base on the moon and then declaring the moon to be exclusive US territory.

ALL of it.

[MMC]

The only concept that matters is building that nuclear missile base on the moon and then declaring the moon to be exclusive US territory.

ALL of it.

Then another Space Station in between Earth and Mars. Get us ready for that terraforming stuff that's coming down the pipe.

[Peter1469]

Then another Space Station in between Earth and Mars. Get us ready for that terraforming stuff that's coming down the pipe.

How would we put a space station between Earth and Mars that was relevant to terraforming Mars?

We would terraform Mars on the surface.

[MMC]

How would we put a space station between Earth and Mars that was relevant to terraforming Mars?

We would terraform Mars on the surface.

We would build the station between Earth and Mars. Supply and Medical Depot.

[Peter1469]

We would build the station between Earth and Mars. Supply and Medical Depot.

You know the orbits of earth and Mars are different. A space station between the two would be a cluster$#@!.

[Sergeant Gleed]

Then another Space Station in between Earth and Mars. Get us ready for that terraforming stuff that's coming down the pipe.

It would be perfectly potty to build an inhabited station in an orbit between Earth and Mars unless it's orbit was such that it always shuttled between the two, thus acting as a cruise ship.

The Love Boat of Space.