Mission Mars.

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The only other “outer space landform” besides Earth that a human has stepped foot on is the moon. However, there are currently efforts that are being developed to change that long-standing statement. As science and technology advance we are able to send humans closer and closer to other planets. Sometime between Dec. 25, 2017 and Jan. 5 2018, NASA will be launching a married couple toward Mars to take advantage of a rare and favorable alignment of Mars and Earth. The couple would cruise within 100 miles of the Red Planet’s surface for 501 days in space. Inspiration Mars officials say that the flyby mission will help inspire the next generation of researchers and engineers, preserving America’s competitive edge in science and technology. It should also lay the foundation for even more ambitious manned exploration of the solar system.

            The next manned space mission is the Mars One project. Mars One is a not-for-profit foundation that will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Crews of four will depart every two years, starting in 2024. Their first unmanned mission will be launched in 2018. The Mars One mission plan consists of cargo missions and unmanned preparation of a habitable settlement, followed by human landings. In the coming years, a demonstration mission, communication satellites, two rovers and several cargo missions will be sent to Mars. These missions will set up the outpost where the human crew will live and work.

            These two space missions will test the intelligence, adaptability, and durability of the human race. We will gain more knowledge and insight about space and the habitability of our planet. Pushing the limits of our existence.

"Quotes."

I honestly ran a blank when trying to think of something to write about for the first option and the second option was about something I already commented on in another blog post. So I decided to collect quotes that I found to be compelling to me.

"Suppose within every book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but thesevolumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place." —Hilary Mantel (2009)

“No thought can perish,” —Edgar Allan Poe

“The Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them,” says Genesis; “and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” For each creature one name; for each name one creature. Soon, however, Adam had help.

“The name of a man is like his shadow,” onomatologist Ernst Pulgram in 1954. “It is not of his substance and not of his soul, but it lives with him and by him. Its presence is not vital, nor its absence fatal.”

"You should no more grieve for the rest than for a buckle lost from your first shoe, or for your lesson book which will be lost when you are old. We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language." —Septimus