User:Riffsyphon1024/Space exploration timeline
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Subdirectory page created 00:06, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) by Riffsyphon1024.
I have always had a strong feeling for space exploration and have planned a basic timeline of the events that may happen in our near future regarding humans venturing out into the unknown. All events are 2005 and beyond.
Our initiatives:
1) Establish a permanent presence in space. (We're already doing this)
2) Finish what we need to on the International Space Station, and then decommission the shuttles for good. (2005-2010)
3) Before the decommission, new space vehicles need to be tested and implimented. (2007-2009)
4) After decommission, start the new program. (2010)
5) Start initiative for a moon landing. Various science missions will be performed to find a suitable future moon base location. (2015-2018)
6) Establish permanent presence on the moon, by constructing the moon base, and surrounding colonies. (2020-2025)
7) Use the moon as a research station for future missions to Mars. Impliment telescopes on the dark side to search for new planetary systems, gamma ray bursters, supernovae, etc. Affix solar panels at the poles for continuous power for the moon base and colonies. (2023-2027)
8) When enough resources and science has been generated from the moon's colonization, then can a manned mission to Mars be fully realized. The spacecraft that will transport people to the red planet can either be built on the moon or in orbit or either the moon or the earth (via Earth's spaceport to have been constructed around 2025). Launch from space requires no heavy rockets to make it enter space. Launch from the moon would also be easy due to the 1/6 Earth gravity. (ca 2030)
9) Establish a permanent presence on Mars with a base and colony. (2031-2035)
10) Establish mining colonies on both the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos. (2035-2040)
11) Construct spaceport in orbit above Mars, with launch abilities for manned missions to the Jovian and Saturnian systems. (2040)
12) Launch mission for Europa (ca 2045)
13) Launch mission for Titan (ca 2050-2060)
[edit] Other missions during this time
- Deep Impact, launched January 12, 2005, impacted comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched August 12, 2005, arrival at Mars early 2006
- New Horizons, launch January 9, 2006, arrival at Pluto by July 2015
- Dawn Mission, launch May 27, 2006, arrival at 4 Vesta by July 30, 2010, departure on July 3, 2011, arrival at 1 Ceres by August 20, 2014
- Phoenix, launch August 2007, arrival at Mars by mid-2008
- Kepler Space Observatory, launch 2007, to remain in Earth orbit
- Herschel Space Observatory, launch February 2007, to remain in Earth orbit
- Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, launch 2008, to remain in Earth orbit
- Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, launch 2009 (cancelled)
- ExoMars, launch 2009 or 2011
- Phobos-Grunt, launch October 2009 - Mars Orbiter and Phobos Sample Return
- Space Interferometry Mission, launch 2009-2010, to remain in Earth orbit
- Mars Science Laboratory, launch December 2009, arrival at Mars by October 2010
- Mars 2011, launch 2011
- James Webb Space Telescope, launch 2011, to remain in Earth orbit
- Terrestrial Planet Finder, launch of TPF-I in 2014 and TPF-C in 2020, to remain in Earth orbit
- Darwin, launch no earlier than 2014, to remain in Earth orbit
- Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter coupled with the Prometheus Program, launch no earlier than 2015, arrival in Jupiter orbit unknown
