I remember a long while back in my blog — maybe last year or the year before — I was trying to explain that humans won’t be going to Mars anytime soon. I tried explaining to you guys that going to Mars will not be as easy as going to the Moon was. Astronauts was able to travel to the moon safely well ’cause it was easier. Mars would be more difficult and challenging. Sure, I’m sure astronauts can successfully go to Mars, explore the planet’s surface, and leave the planet alive; however, you may not survive when you return to Earth. Why? Radiation is key. It means humans can get cancer travelling to and from Mars. I tried explaining how dangerous it would be to go to Mars but sure enough people had exact opposites of opinion and they think going to Mars would be a piece of cake. If you really think that, then you’re delusional.

In order for humans to travel to Mars safely it would take years and years of research and investigation. While NASA and Russia both have been investigating ways of how humans can go to Mars, this is only the beginning. It’s only getting started. It takes small baby steps to get there so getting to Mars safely won’t happen overnight.

They are able to send probes and robots to Mars ’cause they’re obviously not living things. Even if they are able to figure out a way for humans to travel to Mars safer, you just never how dangerous it would be on the planet surface as well. You can’t just wear a regular astronaut suit and walk around the surface. This is not Star Trek or those whacky sci-fi films where humans can stand on any planet as they please.

So when will we get our first human to step on Mars? I would say not for another 100 years or probably never at all. The planet surface may seem like it’s safe to walk around but you never know that there could be dangerous life-forms on that planet that could kill you easily. I’m not saying that there could be aliens like from the movies on Mars but they could have lifeforms in chemical form. You never know how dangerous the air is or the planet’s temperature and all that stuff. It may have been discovered that the planet has water and ice but that still doesn’t mean it’s a possibility that it could be safe.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see our first human step on Mars. It would be an amazing and history making moment but it won’t happen anytime soon or never at all. It is fun to investigate the planets surface with the probes though. NASA is just starting to explain that going to Mars would be impossible because of the radiation like I’ve been saying a long time ago.

Read this piece, here.

Kev