James Cameron’s Martian dreams
August 18th, 2010 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANIWellington, August 18 (ANI): James Cameron has been working in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) since April, helping scientists build a 3D camera for Mars.
The director says that in the future he would like to expand on his expertise and help send people to the planet.
“I’ve been thinking about the issues of sending human beings to Mars for a long time,” Stuffco.nz quoted him as saying during a press day for the re-release of Avatar.
The director says that although he is enthusiastic about sending ordinary people into space, he worries the public aren’t interested in exploring the planets enough.
He believes that to warrant spending the huge amounts of money necessary for such a mission, there needs to be a greater public interest, although he has already begun thinking about who could fund the project.
“The public has to want it - that’s number one - because it has to be paid for. I think commercial, new, lean enterprises like [PayPal co-founder] Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, which is going to be creating human transportation to the space station. They’re a good candidate to build the systems that could get us to Mars, for example,” he added. (ANI)
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