SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -[T]he 100-Year Starship project aims to develop the tools and technology necessary to build and fly a spaceship to another planetary system within the next 100 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Artist and science fiction writers are great supporters of space travel, and they are willing to lend their time and effort to the project. The skills of artist and science fiction writers can help in the program’s aim of increasing public enthusiasm for space exploration.

Detailed explanation-3: -Extend human presence deeper into space and to the Moon for sustainable long-term exploration and utilization. Address national challenges and catalyze economic growth. Optimize capabilities and operations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overcoming the challenges of working in space has led to many technological and scientific advances that have provided benefits to society on Earth in areas including health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, energy and environment, information technology, and industrial productivity.

Detailed explanation-5: -Further exploration will potentially involve expedition and the other planets and settlements on the moon as well as establishing mining and fueling outposts, particularly in the asteroid belt. Physical exploration outside the solar System will be robotic for the foreseeable future.

Detailed explanation-6: -Astronauts have to breathe, eat, drink and keep their demons at bay. Robots fly free of such constraints. They can do more, go more places and-because they don’t require life support systems and are thus cheaper than human missions-do it all more often.

Detailed explanation-7: -Spacecraft and fuel management. Radiation, microgravity, and astronaut health. Isolation and psychological issues. Communications (in transit and on Mars)