Space Exploration: A beginning

So in this post, I am going to talk about the beginning of my future space travel.

I know what you all are thinking. Trip to Mars.

And you are correct.

In the year 2020 AD, six men and six women of different nationalities and backgrounds take off from a small launch pad in Northern British Columbia, Canada. They blast off not to fanfare or a huge media attention, but to relative silence.

Eleven years before that, in the year 2009, they got together to try to figure out how to travel to Mars.

It started out as a purely academic puzzle between four of its members. As University Professors living in New York, it was a good exercise. They weren't sure which of the four had made the joke or when, but they joked that what if they were to actually go to Mars.

In the spring of 2012 AD, with the Great Recession of 2008 now deepening into the second Great Depression, they presented there study to the scientific community. There plan was for a one way trip to Mars costing a 500 billion dollars to fund. It was laughed at.

But that didn't stop them. They kept planning. They kept working on the problems that they would have to face. Some solutions were theoretical at first, but then turned practical as they figured out ways to test there knowledge.

The turning point came in the fall of 2012. When one of the group of four won the 50 million lottery. Instead of spending the winnings, the professor invested it. In a time when most people are loosing vast sums of money, they made money. Vast sums of money.

By the year 2014, they had started a non-profit business. It was called 'Marzorbust! Incorporated'. With the goal of using private funds to land a crew of colonists to live of Mars indefinitely.

They had managed to horde up enough money to start construction on their radical plan. The plan called for ten ships to be launched over the course of six months. The last ship was to be a crew capsule.

They started looking for help. Over the course of the next year, the little farm that was there base of operations was turned into a small town as people were hired or invested in there dream. Thirty couples gathered together and invested there entire financial wealth into the project.

In the year 2018, two years before there intended launch date, a double tragedy crashed there party. One of there lead founders, died of cancer. And the United States Government denied that they were allowed to use an American Launch pad.

The Russian Government allowed them to use there launch pads, but they weren't allowed to ship there ten space ships to Russia. They would have to rebuild them in Russia.

When what looked like there dream was over, the entire team of people traveled to a small farm in Northern British Columbia, Canada. They transported there ten space ships to the farm to be re-assembled.

The space ships were just that, the ships that would be used in space. They weren't the launch vehicles that they needed to use to get there space ships into space.

In the Spring of 2020, they made a lucky break. A billionaire business man, at the end of his life, bought and shipped ten Russian Soyuz Rockets to Northern Canada. In pieces. Illegally.

In the summer of 2020, the ten rockets were blasted off of the tiny farm turned launch pad into outer space. All during the same night. One after the other.

NATO went crazy. By the time that the Canadian Military had jets in the area, the ten ships, nine of which were unmanned, were already in space and out of range of any and all incoming violence.

The trip took them the planned two months. Once there, they sent the nine unmanned cargo ships down onto the surface.

The original plan was for the cargo ships to be disassembled by robots before they had even left Earth. Now, they floated in a low-Mars orbit waiting for the robots to finish.

Back on Earth, media had stormed all over the pioneers. They scrutinized there motives and histories as if they were criminals. Criminals that had tried to get into political office.

During the 2 months in space, each crew member had blogs and other various social media sites which they kept up with.

On December 24th, 2020, there space ship landed on the surface of Mars. For this they had the scene covered by at least fourteen cameras. The entire world watched the first man, actually a woman, step on the martian surface.

They left the networking sites soon after that to live on Mars in peace. There last blog post/message was open sourcing the ships that they used to get to Mars. They let the world know how they had done it and how it was possible for others to follow.

By Christmas in the year 2021, the human population on Mars had reached 228 people.

That is a small blurb from the History of Space Exploration. There is more to talk about. I have 490 years of history that can be told. But not tonight.

Let me know what you think. Leave a comment. Cheers.