It's all a matter of time. What was unthinkable 100 years ago is inevitable in 100 years [But ironically critical now]

The Sky Is Not The Limit.

Human Space Time Travel Mile Stones:

1944 A V-2 Rocket made a vertical test launch. It was the first man-made object to reach outer space, achieving 176 kilometres.

1957 Sputnik, Russia put the first man made satellite in low earth orbit. This triggered the space race.

1966 Luna 9 Became the first probe to achieve a soft landing on another planetary body. It returned five black and white stereoscopic circular panoramas, which were the first close-up shots of the moon’s surface.

1969 Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. The first human step onto land in space. ‘’A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.’’ The whole Apollo program lasted until 1972.

1970 Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to land on another planet, Venus.

1975 The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. Stafford and Leonov, exchanged the first international handshake in space and with that the space race was over.

With the space objective concluded and with no other objective in hand, human space development was put to sleep. The focus has been mostly on earth satellite services and various scientific research probes with limited purpose & without any great objective.

2017 Today the race is back on. This time not political national competitiveness [Although that is ever present] Today it is Climate change that is the lash at our heels. A race to ensure the survival of our species and to give options of colonies on our nearest planets and to inhabit intermediate space.

Along with the coming national endeavours many modern economic entrepreneurs having amounted vast personnel wealth, have revealed a keen desire to make achievements in space beyond earth. While these ambitions are not symmetrically focused or combined they share a plan to facilitate human excursions, if somewhat limited in plan. Only Elon Musk has Mars in his sights. Unfortunately, I do not believe his plan consists of much more than maverick ambition which also sadly is not accompanied by a step by step, safe & sustainable long-term approach.

Below is a British space plan of attack to staircase the solar system with good old fashioned Victorian pragmatism from 2017 - 2077 and beyond..

Staircasing The Solar System

Wellington Port design-1

Step1:

1. Conclude design, build & installation system for Wellington Port design-1.

2. Conclude design-1 Transit Truck.

Conclude designs Habitats, Cargo pods & Transit Gravity transit pods.

Install Wellington Port Eearth-1 {Clean Orbits}

Deploy Truck 1 for assembly.

Deploy Wellington Port Moon-1 orbit.

Conclude designs Luna Alpha Base kit.

Deploy Stock & kit Luna port-1.

Conduct Luna Alpha base reconnaissance low fly drone & Rov ground recon.

Deploy Lunar kit - Rov primary assembly.

Deploy ground crew1 [Primary Luna Hab assembly]

Deploy ground crew2 [Technical Hab configuration]

Complete Truck 6. Open Relay supply train via Lunar surface to Luna port to Earth Port.

Deploy science team1 [general lunar/space sciences – geologist team – mine engineering scout team]

Deploy geo-industrial-design & engineering team

Luna objective 1 complete. [2027-2037]

Moon base Alpha [North]

Iron mining commences

Steel foundary [also sub-terranian]

Surface assent site

Moon Orbital Township Assembly

Deploy Near Earth Townstation-1 [L-1 Earth-Moon]

Deploy at 1.3 AU GB-1

1 Township for any country that can afford one & any private purchases 

"Spreading out into space will completely change the future of humanity" - Prof Stephen Hawking

Mars lacks enough mass to hold onto an atmosphere to prevent it from evaporating into space and arriving back to its [situ] gravity gas balance. Even if the suface was heated, any resulting atmosphere would constantly be depleted as it would drift up and into space.

For Life on mars to be sustainable, for a survivable life cycle with offspring without genetic degradation and because without an atmosphere appropriate for human life, Mars will require more mass & a moon to create a megnetic field foremost and some fractional but important geo heat second.

Deploy Mars Venture1: [2 Trucks Connected 2 Long-range G pods 8 cargo/hab pods] {Pod Mars entry & autonimous lander add on augmentation design}

Introduce Civilian space experiences:

Conclude Design Asteroid Deflection Droids – Build Asteroid Deflection Droids [Collectorrs / Deflectors]

Deploy Asteroid deflection droids

Start Asteroid belt deflection phase -

Start Aasteroid rock and ice Keiper belt deflection phase - Mars mass increase 40-50% -

Create Mars Moon [Objective 800km diameter?]  collection drift orbit inception 100,000km – 160,000km orbit?

Seed shallow oceans - Generate oxygen, nitrogen atmosphere – Deploy solar focused beams to carbonise suitable ground areas.Permanently and self sustainably Habitable by 2400. Introduce base to edible fish stock choice marine eco system and suitable argriculture.

Mars Terraform Primary Complete - Mass colonisation of a near fully habitable Mars commences.  

Mars & Venus

Venus orbiting steam solar shield cloud 

Start Asteroid Droid Keiper water/comet Deflection Droids.

Create Venus Luna collection drift orbit interception.

Atmospheric shade cooling commences. Atkmosphere condensation descent phase commences and increases with oribal shield increase.

Venus liquid assesment - atmosphere assemment - 

Venus moon collection & completion

Venus bio-forming commences

Venus habitation commences.