By: Haris Ahmad[1]
This blog is the second one of this series and in this, I will
cover more of the events that will happen before the year 2100. I covered till
the years 2021 in my last blog and explained about the James Webb telescope.
So, let’s proceed further in time. In 2021, another space achievement will be
made and humans will open the first space hotel. Yes, you read it right, a
space hotel. However, the cost of living in this hotel is not ideal for
many people because you’d have to pay 9.5 million $ to launch the
hotel. Going further in time, in 2023 NASA will send humans to the Moon again.
NASA has started a new program called the Artemis. In this project, we may
experience the building of stations on the Moon and later, Mars. For this
program, NASA has made many projects and has made a lot of improvements than
before. NASA will use the SLS (Space Launch System) rockets that are the most
powerful rockets ever made, even more, powerful than Saturn V.
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| Image Source: https://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2018/20180309-sls-best-not-miss.html |
NASA has divided this program into three main parts. The
Artemis I, II and III. In Artemis I, NASA plans to send the first human
spacecraft to the Moon in the 21st century. In Artemis II, NASA
plans to send the first humans in orbit of the Moon in the 21st
century. Lastly, in Artemis III, NASA plans to send the first crewed mission to
the gateway and the lunar surface.
In 2029, the asteroid Apophis will fly 30,000 miles above
Earth. Apophis is a huge asteroid with a diameter of approximately 370 meters.
Some even call it the god of chaos.
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| Image Source: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-impact-threat-asteroid-apophis.html |
This asteroid will flyby Earth on April 13th, 2029
at a small distance above Earth at the speed of 30 km/s. It has chances of
crashing with Earth and scientists have predicted that if this asteroid crashes
with Earth, it will produce a force of 65,000 nuclear bombs exploded at the
same time, killing millions of people just in seconds. The impact of this
asteroid will cause a nuclear winter affecting all humans. Some say that NASA
has already started to prepare for this asteroid impact. Moreover, I have
explained about asteroids in one of my previous blogs too.
Furthermore, by 2050 humans would have started colonizing
Mars. We have been thinking of the colonizing Mars for a long period
and we are soon going to start this process. While NASA is sending humans to
Mars in a few years, SpaceX is going to launch humans to Mars probably before
2025. We really have to leave the planet Earth because we are destroying this
planet in such a way that even its survival has become unsure in the upcoming
centuries. With the threats of nuclear wars as well as the disastrous climate
change, humans aren’t going to end up well on this planet. So, we have to find
other planets to colonize and our very first destination is the red planet,
Mars. In a few centuries, we may find ways to travel to and potentially
colonize exoplanets as well as some of the moons of the planets in our Solar
system itself such as Titan, which is a moon of Saturn.
In this blog, we went halfway to our destination in time and
soon we will complete this fabulous journey in time. I will write another blog
on this topic as well, ending our journey to 2100 and explaining the events
that we will witness before that.
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