The European Space Agency's Mr Emmet Fletcher chats to Victoria about space media, including Starfield, Bruce Willis an…
, which states that humans will arrive on Mars in 2050. So, in only 27 years. This, Fletcher told me, is"ambitious", but certainly not impossible.
"We're still doing things that you wouldn't even think that you could do. I mean, we have a mission going up in the next 10 years, which will look at the atmospheres of planets around other stars... so we can see if there's oxygen on a planet around another star, like 70/80/100 light years away. And you would think, 'nah, I don't think we could do that'. Well, the scientists are going, 'Yeah, we could do that'.
"If we screw it up, [Earth's] not gonna be a nice place. And a lot of it is working out where we're screwing up, and what is causing the most damage. [ESA] is producing a lot of data to help identify climate change. So that's one of the things that we are very keen on... The European Space Agency is a peaceful organisation. So we have no military side... the core of everything we are trying to do is science.
"This sort of thing, these huge engineering projects - which for us are like complete fantasy - engineering wise, it's kind of, sort of possible with a few caveats, like space elevators are kind of possible but with a few caveats. And they've been thought about for decades. But are we all gonna live in space? I don't know."
"So imagine you have an intentional war in space, especially near a planet like Earth, then that could cause a debris belt, which would be very, very, very difficult to solve... when something's moving at five times the speed of a bullet, how are you going to stop it and bring it down? Especially when it's the size of a penny or something?"
"I think before there is a war, everybody would be thinking 'wait a minute, if we do have this war, we are not going to be able to operate in space any more'. So, if you have a faction that depends on its income, or its livelihood or its existence in space, it's going to be a lose/lose situation."We also discussed what it would be like to actually shoot someone in space.
All that being said, shooting someone with a regular gun in space would be a real faff for the shooter, given the effort to pull the trigger from atmospheric pressure and the size of the spacesuit's gauntlet. Fletcher recalled wearing a gauntlet to use the actual camera the ESA's astronauts used in space, and called the whole process"tough".
"But an asteroid? Oh yes! We are doing a lot of work on mining asteroids. You could either mine it in situ out in the asteroid belt, or you could get the asteroid and bring it closer to Earth. It's easier to mine in Earth orbits, and then bring the pieces of metal, for example, down to Earth."
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