Outer Space / Occupy Mars / Get Real

“You see men sailing on their ego trip.
Blast off on their spaceship.
Million miles from reality.
No care for you, no care for me”
– So Much Trouble in the World by Bob Marley & The Wailers

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year in space. His recollections of this unprecedented test of human endurance, and the physical toll it took, raise questions about the likelihood of future travel to Mars (besides the pollution/true cost issues).

For all you space fans:

• Devastating effects to Scott Kelly after a year in space – https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/astronaut-scott-kelly-on-the-devastating-effects-of-a-year-in-space-20170922-gyn9iw.html
• What happens to the human body outside Earth – https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/what-happens-human-body-space/586966/
• Deadly space trash – https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/08/10/no-one-has-yet-been-killed-by-re-entering-space-junk
• NASA’s Orbital Debris Quarterly Newsletter!
• Nazi Wernher Von Braun’s contributions to the American vision for space travel – https://t.co/CF8zS9g9EN | Also see the book Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen)
• 20 min documentary on Nazi Wernher Von Braun, NASA, and contributions to the American vision for space travel – https://youtu.be/itCwbKUy6TM
• Rocket launch / architecture pollution – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03910-z
• DuckDuckGo search results for rocket launch pollution – https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=science+nature+rocket+pollution&atb=v82-1&ia=web
• Trichloroethylene search – https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=trichloroethylene&atb=v82-1&ia=web
• Freaky Swedish sci-fi movie, Aniara – https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/aniara-2019

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