Recently, when the market had some correction, some people jumped out and said the bubble will burst. Some agreed and some disagreed. Who is correct? When GOOG chased near NVDA, some said it would be surpassed soon; some said not just surpassing, but a seesaw game started. Some stood out and say the case is not just GOOG, but AVGO, AMZN, META will also join the competition, why just say GOOG? So, who is correct? We must understand from the base and not just aiming at what is happening today.
Therefore, for the project of Mars exploration is just the same. Don’t just look at today, we must understand the whole exploration of the solar system or even beyond it, or else we do not know how hard or how easy it is. Such as the parallel project of establishing data centre in orbit, Elon Musk said it will be done very soon. Some responded in happiness and some said a lot of technical problems need to be solved. So, who is correct?
When you want to understand the Mars Exploration project accurately, do not just look at Mars, we must know the process of space exploration since the first man entered into space. Who is the first man that entered into space? It was Yuri Gagarin in 12th April 1961. The first American was in 5th May 1961. US apparently was nearly one month later.
How about the other planets? Even they do not have people going there, still a lot of unmanned spacecrafts flying by, I asked the AI to make a list. In the past the writer has to search one by one, now just order the AI to do so. Why we have to learn Financial Astrology? Because it can give us a broader eyesight and can view things from a broader horizon and would not be limited to what is just happening in front of our eyes. Such as the rotating direction of the Milky Way, clockwise or anticlockwise? When viewing from north pole of the Milky Way it is anticlockwise, but if from south pole it is clockwise. So, better view things from other side than one side only.
Thus, we know that Mars Exploration is not just a project of visiting Mars, but a series of project exploring the solar system and outside the solar system. When you know such a big picture, you can understand more than others just thinking of Landing on Mars only. When US found that in the space race, they were left behind by Soviet Union, on 25th May 1961, in a special joint Congress session, President John Kennedy pledged to achieve a goal of sending a man to land on the Moon and back to earth safely before the end of that decade. Finally, it was done!
Please mind that NASA did not stop exploration to other planets even the Moon is in priority. Mission to Mars had a flyby of the US in 1962, and to Mars in 1964 and still continuing parallel to Moon Landing. By the way, they are still planning to other planets and to the outer space, even though some results can only be seen after the Moon Landing. Thus, we can know space exploration is a whole project and cannot be just cut off and talk about one part of Mars or Moon only.
Even in landing of the Moon, there is not just by a single project of Apollo, there is still another project know as Gemini. Do you know the difference between Apollo and Gemini Projects? We must understand these all one by one or else you do not know how important or unimportant the Artemis project of Mars Landing is. We will talk about in the coming issues. But don’t forget Voyager 1 and 2 to outer space is still running now and a lot of projects beyond Mars are still running in parallel now.