Crewed

Crewed expeditions in deep space may be a long time from now, if ever. Zero-gravity conditions and space radiation are deterrents, not to mention the psychological trauma of isolation in outer space and the exorbitant cost financially. The pioneers would have to be fit soldiers.

We still do not have the technology for travelling by crewed missions into deep space.

Many think that crewed travel into deep space isn't impossible.

Some people like me think that AI, Artificial Intelligence, will help in realizing future crewed interplanetary flights. AI will be able to solve engineering problems that humans are not able to solve.

The successful test sets the stage for a planned launch, without crew, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida next year, before a crewed launch in 2023.

I walked to Tim Hortons café at about 5, then later at 9, this chilly but sunny morning of the 29th of June of 2025. I enjoyed an Earl Grey tea with oat milk, a Sausage Egg English Muffin, an Iced Coffee with oat milk, and a Scrambled Egg Sausage Potato Box. I was thinking there at my table about my adolescent days when I was fascinated with enclosed shopping malls, like Lulu Island's Richmond Centre and Lansdowne Centre, as well as Vancouver's Harbour Centre Mall, and reflecting on future space colonies on Luna, Mars, Saturn's moon Titan, and Neptune's moon Triton, as I tied the ideas with the speculative fiction that I was reading and watching then. Of course, that time was before the advent of advanced Artificial Intelligence that we have today and the observance of the years passing by with such slow progress in crewed space travel. I have had to adjust my vision of the future, accordingly. Maybe, AI will help humans to that end? Or, maybe, AI will be the major player?