The mission depends on getting the Starship up into space and landing without exploding.
Dangerous for Humans
Elon Musk says it will take only two more years for SpaceX to fly a cargo and equipment drop to Mars. The Starship design can comfortably take up to 100 people to Mars or anywhere, for that matter. And Musk believes SpaceX will be flying passengers to the Red Planet as early as 2026.
Stirone is warning that when people get to Mars it might be a flight of no return.
“You can choose between your blood boiling, you know, fizzing up like a can of soda, dying from having your muscles deteriorate, freezing to death, you name it, you have a lot of options,” Stirone claims that there are many ways a human can die on Mars.
On a mission to Mars, NASA’s Human Research Program has anticipated five critical dangers to the human crew. That program is still developing best practices, technologies, and methods to safely enable human space travel.
Space Radiation
Space-traveling astronauts would be exposed to about 10 times the radiation they would on earth. And space radiation is more deadly and damaging than what we have on Earth.
