In the near future humans will be able to live on other planets, moons or other asteroids. Imagine being able to go on a vacation on a planet that is light years away. That is what the future holds for space travel for humans. Private space companies are investing in areas like space tourism and exploration. In the near future it will possible to use robots to mine for natural resources on far away planets.
With the cost of launching rockets into space reducing since successful lunches made by spaceX , space tourism is no longer a distant dream. The world's first commercial space company virgin galactic, founded by Richard Branson plans to fly people to space in 2018.
One of the major challenges to space exploration is self sufficiency. To colonize other planets humans need to create conditions that are similar to the ones here on earth to ensure survival. Essential supplies like water, oxygen, food would have to be in constant supply from earth to sustain such colonies. To solve such challenges there has to be a way to produce these supplies from local materials.
A brief history of space exploration
In 1958 the first US satellite, Explorer 1 went into orbit. In 1962 John Glenn, became the first man to Orbit the earth, In a hstoric flight that lasted a few minutes.
In 1962 Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon, after that 6 Apollo missions explored the moon between 1969 to 1972.
Skylab, America’s first space station, was a human-spaceflight highlight of the 1970s, In the 1980s satellite communications expanded to carry television programs, and people were able to pick up the satellite signals on their home dish antenna.
Conclusion
Space exploration has evolved beyond our imagination, and we hope we will witness the first inter-galactic.