1. SPACE TRAVEL

2. difficulties Long time in microgravity
Human body needs gravity - Lose bone density, muscle
Micrometeorites
Huge distances!
Getting through Earth’s atmosphere
Money

3. Moon Travel Luna 1959 (unmanned)= 36 hour Apollo 1970’s = 3 days
New Horizon 2006 = 8 hours
Space Shuttle: 13 hours
(last shuttle 2011)

4. Oct. 5, 2017

5. NASA FUTURE MISSIONS (unmanned)
“INSIGHT”- planned launch (unmanned)
Drill into Mars
“OSIRIS-Rex
Launched sample asteroid and return to Earth (2023)
TESS- (Transitting Exoplanet Survey)
June 2018
Europa
Planned 2020’s

6. Nasa manned missions ORION space craft in development
Proposed use to build “outpost” to travel to Moon/Mars/
ISS- International Space Station
6897 days in Earth’s orbit

7. PRIVATE SPACE EXPLORATION
Space X
Designs rockets to supply ISS
Developing craft for humans
Travel to ISS
Space “tourist” to orbit moon
2 people have reserved already….Cost?.... Planned for 2018

8. Virgin Galactic http://www.virgingalactic.com/
Make your reservation now! ($250,000) seats are going fast!