There are various ways we will be able to go to Mars. It should have been done years ago and would have happened faster than expected.
THE KITCHEN SINK MISSION
The first way to go to Mars is by doing what I call the kitchen sink mission. You would bring everything you need for the trip with you including the proverbial kitchen sink. This would require constructing a large spaceship in orbit or maybe on the moon since the gravity is so much less there. Once everything is assembled to allow a team of astronauts to live and work on Mars for upwards to months on the first trip, the spaceship would be sent to Mars.
In order to cut the travel time from months to weeks or maybe days, an electromagnetic energy boost should be used. A modified Ground/Ship Launch/Propulsion System projector would generate a powerful energy beam that would simultaneously repel, power the engines, and store energy kinetically in flywheels in the spaceship. The boost may last for an hour and allow the spaceship to achieve a speed of over 1% of the speed of light. If the spaceship is nuclear-powered, it could use reverse thruster that are repulsion-drive engines that use field repulsion for thrust. The engines may have to be used soon after the boost since at 1% of the speed of light, if Mars is maybe 45 million miles from earth, it would take less than eight hours to get there.
Most of the spaceship would be left to orbit the planet while a large landing vehicle would land. It would contain building material for a colony, a greenhouse, a reactor facility for energy and heat, vehicles, robots, medical equipment, food and water to last for months, and enough oxygen for the period too. Air scrubbers would be used to recycle the air until the greenhouse is able to use plants to recycle the air and produce food for the astronauts.
Once the exploration is completed and the colony is able to be self-sustaining, the astronauts would have to wait until Mars and earth are close enough to make the trip a fast one. If the reactor on the surface and the one in the part of the spaceship in orbit above Mars is used to give the returning spaceship a repulsive boost back to earth, the trip may take around as long as it did going to Mars. If it does take less than a day, there will be little exposure to radiation in space. A multiple-layer particle field would also protect the astronauts from radiation.
THE COMPONENT SYSTEM
Many scientists want to send components for a Mars mission ahead of the astronauts. Robotic equipment could build the colony and ready it for occupation by astronauts. This preparation would take awhile. But the colony would be better able to handle the needs of the astronauts so that they could live there longer and do more exploration instead of what is needed to survive.
If force field towers are erected and nuclear, solar, and wind power energy systems are used by the colony and to provide the energy for the force fields, sections of the planet could become hospitable for human habitation without the need for spacesuits. Air could be kept in place by the fields. If Mars doesn’t have electromagnetic fields like earth, they would have to be formed by the towers.
Underground habitations could be readied by robots since they would require less material and the natural insulation of the ground would protect the astronauts from the cold and the winds better. Also, they could be the start of a tunnel and cave system which would be hollowed out by plasma drilling moles. With plasma instead of solid bits being used to drill, there would be no breakage and the job could be done faster. We may even discover the water that is below the surface and could use it for the greenhouses and for human use.
The trip to the planet could be done by GSLP energy boost from either the moon or an orbiting energy unit. If the trip takes less than a day, the astronauts may feel like a trip back could be done most of the time. If a projector is built on Mars that is used to boost the returning craft, as long as Mars and Earth are on the same side of the sun, the longest trip might last a few days if 1% of light speed can be attained by the boosted craft.
GSLP
The Ground/Ship Launch/Propulsion System now comes in two types. The first type would use a powerful ground energy source to generate an electromagnetic beam that would simultaneously repel, power the engines, and respin the flywheels of a powered projectile that would be sent from the earth or the moon to Mars. Either repulsion-drive retro-engines or another projector near Mars would slow the craft as it comes close to Mars. There could be components sent ahead to form the colony that would use the system to get to Mars.
The second type of GSLP would use multiple beams and electromagnetic fields that would envelope the projectile. The projectile would use linear induction and repulsion to use the system like a tunnel to Mars. The beams and fields may go all the way to Mars or part of the way there. If they go all the way there, the trip might take less than two or three hours since the craft would be surrounded by energy that it would use and repel off of.
With GSLP. the craft can be smaller since it would need a minimal amount of energy aboard for thrust. That means if the mission is a component mission, the powered projectile might be smaller than a 747 but would have more than half the cargo that the kitchen sink mission would have.
HYPERSONIC SPACEPLANE
If a nuclear-powered hypersonic spaceplane is used, the trip could start at the Kennedy Center in Florida or at Edwards Air Force Base in California. It would take days or maybe weeks to reach Mars unless a GSLP boost is used. The astronauts would travel in comfort and with field protection around the craft, safely without being harmed by radiation.
The plane would use either repulsion field landing gear since wheels might not be able to take the rough landing conditions or a double field motive system that would use a displacement and motive field that is repelled out by an inner levitation field. If this type of landing gear is used, the plane could land vertically and take off vertically.
The plane could be the first of many that will fly astronauts at first and then tourists to the planet. If a trip to Mars takes less than a week and costs less than $1 million, there may be many wealthy people who will want to travel to Mars. Once it becomes fairly habitable, more people will come to Mars and the price will drop to less than $100,000 for a round-trip.
FIELD ACCELERATION STATIONS
Once Mars becomes a collection of colonies, travel to the Red Planet will be either by spacecraft or transporter. Field acceleration stations will be used to send spacecraft to Mars and beyond at incredible speeds. If one is lined up right between the earth and the moon that is pointed at Mars, a craft might be able to travel to the planet within an hour. But for people, the station could be a relay for a teleportation system that will allow a person to travel to Mars at the speed of light or maybe faster if hyperlight physics becomes a reality. The FAS System would be like a wormhole. That means a person would walk into a transporter, be surrounded by an energy field, and then be “transmitted” to a location at the speed of light or faster. For safety reasons, people may enter a capsule that will have air and other things that are needed if the trip is done at high sublight speed. Even then, the trip to Mars may take less than half an hour.
Let’s say it’s the year 2159 and you need to take a trip to Mars for some reason. You could use a spaceplane that might get there in less than an hour, provided hyperlight physics becomes a reality by then. But the cost would be more than you make in a week. If you only need to be there for a meeting and don’t want to stay awhile even though much of the planet could be suitable for people with a temperature of between 40 and 70 degrees and enough air to let people walk around without spacesuits on, you may choose to use a transporter capsule. Or you might go for the faster hyperlight speed FAS System. With the HLSFAS System, a trip to Mars might take less than a second. It would be like walking through a doorway. You walk into the chamber, get “zapped and transmitted,” and walk out of the chamber on Mars. For no more than it costs to take the train from Croton to Grand Central Station, you could “walk” to Mars. If a million people chose to travel to Mars this way, Mars coud become just another destination like church or the local grocery store is now.
If NASA doesn’t choose to use existing technology to send astronauts to Mars, the trip there could be less expensive, faster, safer, and more efficient. Mars is so much like Earth that for man not to travel there would be like Columbus never deciding to travel to the New World. We are destined to travel to the Red Planet and extend man’s presence to that planet just as we will to the moon. GSLP, repulsion-drive, and eventually the FAS System will make the trip faster and easier.
