Space Exploration

How to make space exploration farther and also have a human in that spacecraft?

This started because the Earth, our home planet has lost a lot of non-renewable resources, and someday shortly that non-renewable resources will disappear. So, we have to find another planet where humans can survive and sustain humanity. In the history of humanity, the farthest space exploration is nearly 14 ½ billion miles (23 million km) from Earth which is the Voyager 1. However, there was no human on the Voyager 1 spacecraft. My question is “How to make space exploration farther and also have a human in that spacecraft?” For the Voyager 1, NASA (The National Aeronautics Space Administration) uses the slingshot technique, slingshotting around planets to use its gravitational force and turn on the booster, so that a high amount of energy makes the spacecraft accelerate at a high speed.

At the present, the 3 main things limiting our space exploration are the resources that are devoted to it, the constraints of our existing technology (Voyager 1 thrust, etc.), and the laws of physics. For the first reason, we can’t devote more resources to support this space exploration because there are no people that are willing to ask society for the resource. If there are enough resources, humanity should have developed advanced technology to solve problems. Space travel to the other star systems is still a dream for the next generations because we don’t have the technology that can make this possible. Scientists at NASA couldn’t use the law of physics formulas to innovate a better idea than doing the slingshot technique around the planets, on the other hand, we have to create and experiment with nuclear-powered rockets, fusion technology, and Dark matter fuel-based, wormholes, or even warp drive.

The only thing that seems possible is the nuclear-powered rockets because we already have a small-scale Nuclear power plant (we will build a cooling system like a water cooling system in PC to cool the Nuclear power plant down). We will use an Arc Reactor which stores energy and can be used after each slingshot so that it helps boost the speed of the spacecraft. Then, we have to use the slingshot technique from the order of the closest planet to us depending on the day that the spacecraft has been launched. The design of the spacecraft has to be minimalized by removing unnecessary things. This nuclear-powered spacecraft and the slingshot idea are created from the applied and integrated from science. For the time issue, I have an idea of using a sleeping slot where you can sleep there and wake up when it reaches the destination of another solar system. There will be 7 astronauts in the spacecraft and each of them will have to wake up and do their job for an equal time. We can also use Science to experiment and create a code that would help stabilize the direction of the spacecraft. A possible invention in the present would be the Autopilot.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/12/30/how-far-could-a-spaceship-go-if-we-never-ran-out-of-thrust/?sh=5f169c4329ee

Siegel, Ethan. “How Far Could a Spaceship Go If We Never Ran out of Thrust?” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022, https://www.forbes.com/sites/start

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