WASHINGTON, Jan. 29< /strong> Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin in an interview assessed Elon Musk’s plans for the exploration of Mars; according to him, there are no such technologies yet, but these are plans for the future.
“Perhaps someday such a moment will come, this may now seem like something very, very distant to us, but perhaps there will be technologies that would allow this to be done, but at the moment I don’t have such technologies yet I see,” said Grebenkin. He recalled the words of the founder of manned cosmonautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who said that “a person was born here on Earth, this is his cradle, but a person cannot remain in the cradle all his life.” “At that moment he was considered a science fiction writer,” the Russian cosmonaut recalled.
Without drawing a direct parallel between Tsiolkovsky and Musk, he emphasized that a flight to Mars requires solving a huge set of problems, most of which have not yet been solved today. “The solutions in many areas are not entirely obvious yet,” said the agency’s interlocutor, pointing to the need for breakthrough technologies in such areas as “protection from radiation, life support and, no matter how strange it may seem, in psychological aspects.” “Being in some kind of confined space for a long time, even when people are in good contact with each other, seem to get along very well with each other, it is still a very tense state, and this also requires separate study,” Grebenkin said.
“I think that in many countries scientists are working on this, and I think that we will still be there someday, now Elon Musk is making plans for the future,” he concluded .
American entrepreneur, owner of SpaceX Elon Musk announced plans to colonize Mars by earthlings. To do this, he is building the Starship spacecraft and announces plans to send one million earthlings to the Fire Planet by 2050. Industry experts call such a task unrealistic.
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