By Diana Vazquez ![]() As the 70th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing nears, astronaut Buzz Aldrin works with the Florida Institute of Technology to get colonies started on Mars. For some time now, NASA has been working on creating the space shuttles that would take commercial flights around Mars and its respective moons. With this, Aldrin hopes that his plan is considered, so by 2039--Apollo 11’s anniversary--we will be landing on the red planet. For the past years, much discussion has been made regarding the creation of settlements on Mars, but ultimately people come to the answer that doing so would be a “one-way trip.” Aldrin disagrees with this statement and believes with time we can accomplish the journey in 10 years. Though many are becoming skeptical by the reports NASA has been releasing, regarding how long it would take to get to Mars. Some people believe that the settlement would be unstable due to the lack of supplies, and the astronauts would die soon after arriving. Although, as Aldrin says, the time frame and plan is “adjustable.” Aldrin moved to Florida to take up being a senior faculty advisor and a research professor of aeronautics for the Florida Institute of Technology. He’s been working with the institute’s executive vice-president, T Dwayne McCay on his transition into Florida Tech. Getting to place humans on Mars and having them survive would be an amazing accomplishment and something I would love to be able to see. From where I stand, NASA’s space program has been in low levels of activity, but then all of the sudden they begin to plan something as big as going to Mars to colonize. Aldrin even compared this event to the first big step at creating the United States of America, the creation of Plymouth colony. If this were to happen, NASA would most likely also treat it as a research trip, sending astronauts who are trained biologist or archeologists. While this would be a huge accomplishment for mankind, it would not affect our everyday lives, unless you’re a scientist who searches for life on other planets. Humans have dreamt about living on different planets or even different galaxies for centuries, and when the events of Apollo 11’s landing happened, many were thrilled. That first step on the Moon sent science to a whole new level that would help humans create so much more. But having humans settle on another planet would bring advances to all fields. We should be able to realize that a lot of the dreams or fantasies, could actually be coming true somewhere in the world. Finding out that humans can successfully live on another planet could potentially save mankind. Our Earth is beginning to deteriorate and many believe that in the future it will become uninhabitable (much like in the Pixar movie Up). Finding out that we could go inhabit other planets, would save us if our time on Earth ended. Global warming/cooling, the drought, all the smog forming, the forest fires, California potentially sinkingーthe colonization of Mars could be part of all these larger issues. But of course, we first need to find out if we’ll have any alien neighbors.
Recourse: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/buzz-aldrin-colonize-mars-within-25-years
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