Talk about the world series: "Space Colonization" - Space Travel: Travel to Mars

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It is excerpted from "Huahua Shishiji" published in 2020. Talking about the World" 20-volume series

In the dusty red sand

In the end, I left behind my footprints

Mars

Here I come

In January 2017, the Falcon 9 full-thrust rocket of the U.S. private company SpaceX launched a communications satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Human beings have had unlimited reveries about outer space since primitive times. Flying out of the earth into space to travel and experience a different external world is undoubtedly very attractive and is also what many people dream of. The visual display of physical concepts such as wormholes, black holes, and five-dimensional space in the movie "Interstellar" is dazzling. The ever-changing space scenery in the science fiction scenes in the film deeply stimulates the audience's senses. This is undoubtedly It's a visual feast. Decades have passed since mankind's journey to space. How can ordinary people enjoy an interstellar space travel? In 2001, the world's first ordinary tourist entered space, making the mysterious outer space more relevant to our human life today. Suddenly, "space tourism" has turned from a seemingly unreachable dream into a reality, and space so far away from us is actually within our reach.

The first "space taxi" was successfully tested

The American Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX) is an American space transportation company established in June 2002. After just a few years of development, on September 28, 2008, the Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX) finally launched the Falcon 1 carrier rocket into space after experiencing three launch failures. This was the world's first successful launch. Private enterprise of launch vehicles. In October 2012, SpaceX cooperated with NASA to use the Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. This was the world's first aerospace industry promoted by private aerospace. The original intention of the company's founder, Elon Musk (1971-), was to bring a revolution to the aerospace field and eventually colonize Mars. However, Musk's ideas are considered almost fanatical by many people. In 2015, Musk made another bold statement, and the company announced that it would dominate the solar system in 2100.

Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. He holds dual nationality of Canada and the United States, and is an entrepreneur, engineer, and philanthropist. He currently serves as CEO and CTO of Space Exploration Technology Company, CEO and product architect of Tesla Company, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of SolarCity.

Ambitious Mars Colonization Plan

At 3 a.m. Beijing time on September 28, 2016, SpaceX founder Elon Musk spoke at the 67th International Astronautical Congress. Giving a keynote speech titled "Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species", Musk said that SpaceX will launch a "Mars Transportation System" for human landings on Mars. Although Musk's rhetoric seems unrealistic to some people, Musk has stated the starting point of this move. He believes that there are only two paths before mankind: one is to die of old age on the earth, succumb and wait for extinction; the other It is to leave the cradle and colonize other planets, and Mars is undoubtedly the best choice due to its many similarities with the Earth.

Of course, Musk’s Mars colonization plan does not stop at verbal propaganda. He is also leading SpaceX to put the plan into practice step by step. In just the past 15 years, SpaceX has grown from an unknown private company to a leader in the development of private companies in global aerospace technology. SpaceX's research and development plan also includes establishing a launch site on Mars, launching to the earth via spacecraft, realizing the reuse of rockets and spacecraft, and accelerating the construction of Mars towns. According to SpaceX's plan, it will take 80-150 days for the spacecraft to launch from the earth and reach Mars. During this period, people can enjoy various entertainment in the spacecraft. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In order to make Mars colonization a reality, SpaceX decided to cooperate with NASA to implement a Mars landing plan every two years starting from 2018.

In December 2008, the European Space Agency announced that it had selected 4 "Mars astronauts" from 5,680 candidates. They may embark on a spacecraft to start a journey to Mars in the future.

Small topic: Space planting industry

Space planting industry is aerospace breeding, also known as space mutation breeding. It is to send crop seeds or mutagen materials aboard return satellites or high-altitude balloons. It is a new breeding technology that goes to space and uses the special environmental mutagenesis in space to mutate seeds, and then returns to the ground to cultivate new varieties of crops.

In recent years, with the development of the aerospace industry, attempts are being made to plant crops in space.

Small topic: Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a spacecraft that transports astronauts and cargo to space and returns safely. Spacecraft can be divided into two types: disposable and reusable. The spacecraft is sent into a specific satellite orbit or planet by a launch vehicle to carry out various scientific experiments. In addition to the basic system equipment of general artificial satellites, the spacecraft also has a life support system, a reentry system for returning to Earth, a recovery and landing system, etc.

"Talking about the World" is a National Publishing Fund project. The editorial board is composed of famous world history professors and researchers, and the creative team is mainly composed of world history professors and doctors. "Talking about the World" has 20 volumes, each with about 250,000 words and about 450 exquisite pictures. The content covers world history from prehistory to 2018. It introduces all aspects of world history in detail, displays the tortuous development trajectory of world history in a panoramic manner, and reproduces the historical scene with rich and exquisite pictures.

Content introduction

"Global Era" (to be released) is the 20th volume of "Talk about the World". Today's world is an era of globalization and informationization. Human political organizations, economic exchanges, cultural forms and social life are being swept away by the information frenzy in an irreversible manner, and globalization is penetrating into every corner of the world. Today's world is an era of crisis and hope. Dramatic social changes, diversification, integration and the development of globalization seem to have united mankind as never before, and the barriers in space and the grudges in the heart are being eliminated. All races and nationalities have never understood each other as well as they do today, and the dream of world unity seems to be close at hand. Of course, under this great "hope", crises are also quietly eroding human civilization. Environmental pollution, nuclear crisis, extremism, etc., no matter which one, seems to have the potential power to destroy all good things.

Introduction to the Editor-in-Chief

Yan Yuqiang, graduated from the History Department of Nanjing University in 1989 with a Master's degree in British History. After graduation, he worked as an editor at People's Publishing House. In 1995, he co-founded Beijing Dajiangliu Culture Communication Co., Ltd. with Mr. ***, a senior in the publishing industry, and served as the chief editor. He has been an independent book planner since 2015. Representative planners and editors include "Gallery of Western Philosophy" (7 volumes, Guizhou People's Publishing House), "Chinese and Foreign Civilizations at the Same Time" (6 volumes), shortlisted for the 11th Shanghai Book Award, and won the first Wenhui Peng Xinchao Outstanding Book Publishing Fund Shanghai Jinxiu Articles Publishing House), "Representing World History" (100 volumes, Taiwan Changtan Publishing House), "Representing World Geography" (100 volumes, Taiwan Changtan Publishing House), "Representing Chinese Geography" (100 volumes, Taiwan Changtan Publishing House) society). Books: "The Reform Movement of 1898" (Taiwan Shakespeare Publishing House), "The May 4th Movement" (Taiwan Shakespeare Publishing House), "People at Sea" (Lujiang Publishing House), "Qingtian People in the Netherlands" (China Overseas Chinese Publishing House), " "Human Geography of Anhui" and "Urban Geography of Anhui" (Taiwan Shakespeare Publishing House), etc. Translated works: "Oxford History of Britain" (co-translation, Commercial Press), "The Autobiography of Ronald Reagan" (co-translation, Oriental Publishing House).

Author introduction

Shao Zhengda, PhD in World History from Nanjing University, professor at the School of History, Culture and Tourism at Jiangsu Normal University. His works include "The Opening of New Sea Routes" and "The Discovery of the End of the World - European Sailors in the Age of Discovery".

Chu Qingdong, majoring in world history at Nanjing University, associate professor and postdoctoral fellow at Central China Normal University, has published more than ten papers in high-level domestic journals such as "World History", "Historical Theoretical Research", and "History" .

Huang Jinkuan, Ph.D. in World History from Nanjing University, lecturer at Zhejiang Normal University. His main papers include: "On the Formation of Zulu National Identity in South Africa" ??and "Colonial Agricultural Development Plans and the Rise of Rural Resistance in Africa - In English Belonging to Southeast Africa as the center" and so on.

Fu Yidong is a doctoral candidate jointly trained by Nanjing University and King's College London, specializing in world history. He is a lecturer at Nantong University. His main papers include "On the Rise of the Modern British Factory System: Centered on the Lumbes Weaving Mill" "On the Development of Modern Medical Industry in Britain, etc."

Wang Ying, a doctoral candidate in world history at Nanjing University, has published "Christina - the Maverick Queen of Sweden" and "The Fusion of Conservatives and Radicals", etc.

Ding Meili, graduate student at Guangxi University for Nationalities