Comparison between Apollo Moon Mission and Planned Mars Mission
NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) is an office of the US Central Government that is in charge of the space program. During the mid-1900 the NASA program was propelled, with Dwight D. Eisenhower being the president. During 1958 an act was signed by President Eisenhower that made NASA a program. After the first journey to the moon, a trip to Mars was the next conversation in the airwaves with NASA spending billions of dollars on a mission to Mars, but no human is yet to set foot on that planet like the successful trip to the moon.
Before the first man landed on the moon, NASA had sent several space crafts to the moon to survey the whether the conditions in the lunar eclipse supported life, and identify the presence of any living creature, which was later followed by the landing of the first Astronaut by the name Neil Armstrong (Yingst, page 317). Planning of the trip to Mars has also been aided by Mariner 6 and seven which were sent on a mission to Mars. The main work of the Mariners was to measure the ionosphere of planet Mars. The Marines found out that the atmosphere in mars was mainly occupied with carbon dioxide. Two Viking landers were also sent by NASA in the year 1976. The main aim of the landers was to confirm whether the atmosphere of Mars was truly occupied with carbon dioxide, which was proved correct. From the last 20 years, science specialists and engineers have been working for a mission to mass, which is going to be visited more than any other planet or the moon in the 21st century.
President John Kennedy declared before an extraordinary joint session of Congress, the sensational and yearning objective of sending an American securely to the Moon before the decade’s end on May 1961. President Kennedy felt a great pressurized because of the Soviet Association since he felt that he needed to “make up for the lost time and surpass” in what was being known as the “space race.” The Sputnik emergency was a time of open dread and nervousness in Western countries about the apparent mechanical hole between the US and Soviet Association brought about by the Soviets dispatch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first counterfeit satellite (Yingst, page 313). The emergency was an important occasion in the driving rain War that set off the production of NASA and the Space Race between the two superpowers. A short time later, the primary individual in space was the cosmonaut of the Soviets, Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. A couple of years later, Kennedy’s discourse, “Moon Shot,” motivated numerous individuals to walk first on the moon. Project Apollo accomplished the motivation discourse by July 20, 1969, when the Apollo 11 administrator Neil Armstrong jumped off the Lunar Module’s stepping stool and onto the Moon’s surface.
(Neil Armstrong after landing on the Moon)
To date, both manned and unmanned trips to the moon and back have taken place. There has been an aggregate of six manned United States arrivals on the moon (Hellweg & Christine, page 518). The United State is the main nation to have made it effectively to the moon. In 1973, the total expense of the Apollo program was accounted for to be about $25.4 billion.
Presently unlike the moon’s central goal, “landing a man on the moon and afterward return him securely to Earth” (John F. Kennedy), the mission to Mars was somewhat more intricate. There were four objectives that NASA had at the top of the priority list:
Objective 1: Decide if life at any point emerged on Mars
Objective 2: Describe the atmosphere of Mars
Objective 3: Describe the topography of Mars
Objective 4: Plan for human investigation
For the principal objective, the 2020 Mars mission wanderer centers around surface-based investigations of the Martian atmosphere, looking for protected indications of biosignatures in rock tests that shaped in old Martian situations with conditions that may have been positive to microbial life (Hellweg & Christine, page 520). For the second objective, the wanderer’s instruments are searching for proof of antiquated livable conditions where microbial life could have existed previously.
All the rock layers on the Martian surface contain a record of the atmosphere wherein it was shaped. The wanderer looks for proof of rocks that framed in water and that preserve proof of organics, the concoction building squares of life (Yingst, page 318). The third objective, the Mars 2020 meanderer, is intended to contemplate the stone record to uncover increasingly about the geologic procedures that made and adjusted the Martian outside layer and surface through time. The ultimate objective, the Mars 2020 wanderer, is showing key advancements for utilizing natural assets in the Martian condition for life backing and fuel. Likewise, the Mars 2020 wanderer is observing natural conditions, so mission organizers see better how to secure future human pilgrims.
In conclusion, just like the Apollo trip to the moon, NASA also sent did send out space crafts to survey the environment on planet Mars. President John Kennedy declared the sending of the first man to the moon and back on May 1961. To date, both manned and unmanned trips to the moon and back have taken place. For the principal objective, the 2020 Mars mission was to investigate the Martian atmosphere. All the rock layers on the Martian surface contain a record of the atmosphere wherein it was shaped. The ultimate objective of the 2020 Mars mission is to investigate whether the Martian atmosphere would support life.
Work Cited
Hellweg, Christine E., and Christa Baumstark-Khan. “Getting ready for the manned mission to Mars: the astronauts’ risk from space radiation.” Naturwissenschaften 94.7 (2007): 517- 526.
Yingst, R. A., et al. “Comparing Apollo and Mars Exploration Rover (MER)/phoenix operations paradigms for human exploration during NASA Desert-RATS science operations.” Acta Astronautica 90.2 (2013): 311-317.