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Would 2 Person Mars Spaceship Crew Kill Each Other On The Trip?
by Monica Davis
Are they crazy? Two people in this tiny craft, with no way to get away from each other for over a year?
If you murder somebody in space, what is the jurisdiction? What court could try you?
The Long-Term Future (The 21st Century)
During the 21st century, the psychological selection, training, and on-board procedures will gradually change in fundamental ways. The combination of improved space technologies and the diversification of sponsoring institutions will stimulate procedures much more similar to those used in mainstream society. Airflight provides a rough analogy; flying 950 kilometers per hour at 12,000 meters (600 miles per hour at 40,000 feet) once required very special selection, training, and operational procedures. Such flights are now available to nearly all members of society with no preparation beyond a two-minute introduction to the emergency life-support systems aboard an airliner.
Selection may devolve to simply preventing armed individuals from going into space. Training may be reduc
ed to a simple orientation to basic safety procedures at the space facility. Operational procedures themselves probably will be aimed exclusively at safety and not necessarily at individual and group productivity.
In the very long run, as space settlements evolve into full-fledged communities in which individuals and families can live permanently, issues relevant to residence in space will merge into the ordinary questions of living on Earth . MOREHERE
This 2 person space voyage would amplify all of the negative pathology in confined space living. There would be no escape, no way of “getting out of Dodge” in a small vehicle. This project will require much sacrific, and more maturity if it is to succeed.
