Isaac


 * NAVIGATION AND PLAN**


 * The distance from Earth to Mars is about 215,000,000 miles or about 346,300,000 kilometers. If we travel using antimatter and going 308,000 km/h, this will take approximately 45 days not including time to accelerate and decelerate. The round trip to go to Mars would take about 4 months if we went there, stopped, and came back. If we could travel at the speed of light, (deemed impossible by scientists) we would reach Mars in 19 minutes.


 * The warmest temperature on Mars is 23 degrees Farenheit. The coldest temperature is -125 degrees Farenheit. This means that we should depart two months before Mars' orbit is closest to the sun to avoid mechanical malfunction due to freezing. Space temperature is about 0 degrees Farenheit, so Mars is considerably colde[[image:2007-1220mars.jpg width="322" height="293" align="right"]]r.


 * Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. These two moons are thought to be asteroids trapped in Mars' orbit. When we deploy the satellites, we need to be sure they will not be on a collision coarse with these moons. We also will need to go into orbit ourselves so we need to find out which way Mars' moons orbit Mars.


 * Before we return we will stay 6 days to make sure the probes and satellites are working properly and we will collect the probes with a small "lander" that will get the probes and then go into orbit to be picked up by us.


 * Once we collect our probes, we will travel back to earth and eject out of our living quarters into the re-entry pod so we can safely parachute to the ground after traveling through the atmosphere.


 * Our living quarters will soon be picked up by a plane/shuttle and will be transpoted back to the space-station so it will not burn up re-entering the atmosphere.

**Traveling Plan**

 When we are traveling to and from Mars, we will have to do many things in the living quarters.


 * After we first blast off of Earth using chemical rockets, we will use antimatter to gain speed until we hit our maximum speed which will be 308,000 km/h (kilometers per hour).


 * While we are in space traveling very fast, we can shut our engines off because there is no need to use more antimatter to propel ourselves forward. This is because there is no friction in space so there is no air or wind slowing us down. We also do not have to have a aerodynamic spaceship design because there is air to push up against.


 * Once we are far away enough from Earth to have no matter around us, we can extend solar panels to get energy from the sun and transfer this energy into light for the plants on our ship.


 * When we are a week into the trip, we will have to start working out. Even though we will have artificial gravity, we still need to stay in shape and keep our minds sharp.


 * The many plants on the ship will be making oxygen for us constantly, and the solar panels will be giving light to them, too. Our water recycling sytem will take waste water from the sink, toilet, and shower and will recycle it by filtering and decontaminating it. Some of that water will be given to the plants, but most will be given back to us for drinking water and for showers and waste disposal.


 * When we get in close proximity of mars, we will start using backward thrust and decelerating. We will also shut off the artificial gravity to avoid being crushed under the small pull of gravity of Mars and the artificial gravity when we go into orbit.


 * When we go into orbit of Mars, we will stay in orbit for about a day until we deploy the probes ad satellites. Once we do this, we will continue to stay in orbit another 6 days to make sure all of the things go as planned. We will make sure the satellites do not encounter any problems and we will send down a robot to collect and bring back the probes.


 * Once we have the probes and satellites working, we will use one more chemical rocket to excape the gravitational pull of Mars and get out of orbit. We will then put the artificial gravity back on.


 * Once we are out of Mars' gravitational force we will use antimatter againg to reach a top speed of 308,000 km/h.


 * We will travel back to Earth and when we get there we will have all of the recovered probes and we will use the re-entry pod to go through the atmosphere and then safely parachute down to the surface of Earth. Then a plane/shuttle will take our living quarters and use it again in future missions to other planets.