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Asked by 322eura33 to Alex, Ali, Kerry on 20 Nov 2014.
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Alex Pool answered on 20 Nov 2014:
Mostly it’s a matter of the time it’d take for us to get there and the supplies we’d need. We can send satellites and probes further out as they’re small. But to put a human up there you’d need a much bigger ship that contains oxygen and food, plus places to sleep, go to the toilet etc. So that makes it a lot harder. Also to get anywhere beyond the moon and back takes a long time as they’re so far away so people would age a lot. Which is why we’ve only been able to make it to the moon so far.
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Alison Thomson answered on 20 Nov 2014:
The next place to go would be mars, and that is vastly further away from us than the moon is, meaning we’d need a lot more money, and loads more resources! Also, we’d have to make plans for when we got there – i.e. we’d need oxygen, and enough fuel to make it home again. And that entire journey would take a long time – the majority of someone’s life, which means we’d have to find someone willing to spend their entire life going to mars! I don’t think I’d be volunteering for that!
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