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CHANCES AND CHALLENGES OF TERRAFORMING OTHER PLANETS
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advance has provided humanity request to raise its quality of life, registered trends anyhow pointing out that technical advances could bring not only desired impacts but also objectionable ones. For finding appropriate answers to recognized challenges the concept of sustainable development has been defined. By considering made progress in mobility field, the current vision is to succeed shaping human mobility not only on a global level, but also on a cosmic one. This seems to be possible by enlarging the idea of space technologies and making them available for so-called cosmic door openers. In this regard the mission of the coauthor of this paper can be mentioned, as being the only one Romanian cosmonaut, flying spacecraft into outer space. The crew consisting of Prunariu and Popov launched on May 14, 1981, aboard Soyuz 40 and docked with the space station Salyut 6, conducting experiments in the fields of biology, medicine, and physics. As a direct expected consequence of such remarkable events, humanity has begun to search for other suitable places on cosmic level for resettlements of human beings. Newer studies are concerned with Terraforming other planets for succeeding in shaping living conditions similar to those on the Earth. A main event in this regard is represented by the NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, whereby collected information will support the process of Terraforming other planets, its chances and challenges for assuring human sustainability being debated in this paper, as well as other curageous recent events will be emphasised. By a detailed inter- and transdisciplinary analysis of this holistic complex process and its sustainability, its containments will come up, following that maybe current sustainability understanding has to be updated.
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