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The claim was made by Christopher Wanjek, a science writer who wrote ‘Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond’. According to the most recent United Nations estimate, the current human population is approximately 7.8 billion.
However, some scientists believe that mankind will eventually colonize space outside the earth, potentially enabling a large population growth.
NASA plans to return a man to the moon by 2024 and then set up a permanent base on the lunar surface.
It then hopes to land a human astronaut on Mars, the first planet to trample humans beyond Earth.
With Express.co.uk, Mr. Wanjek said that space colonization would yield great resources for the human species.
Space Author Chrisopher Wanjek (Image: EXPRESS)
The International Space Station is the only current permanent human presence in space (Image: GETTY)
He argued that the available resources in the asteroid rim could facilitate an explosion in the number of people.
Mr Wanjek says: ‘In a world of unlimited resources, when you take up the spatial resources, it is opened up and suddenly no one is your enemy. Everyone has potential.
‘There are going to be so many more people to have more ideas to get you into this positive cycle of what people can do, and they can make use of these infinite resources of the solar system.
‘There are enough resources in the asteroid rim to support trillions of people.
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“When you think of minerals and oxygen and all the things you need for life, it’s all out there.”
Mr. Wanjek argued that space hotels would play a key role in the commercialization of space and claimed that it would probably be built in front of a permanent lunar base.
The Trump administration has set a target for NASA to return humans to the Moon in 2024 via its Artemis program and then establish a permanent base.
Mr Wanjek said: ‘We will definitely be manning space hotels and space tourism in this decade.
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‘The lunar base I think is not going to happen this decade.
‘This plan to bring people back to the Moon by 2024 is bad. It was a bad idea to start with and now with the pandemic it is definitely not going to happen.
“What you want to do, and what NASA has planned to do, is to slowly get back there by setting up an infrastructure.
‘Send some robots, map the area, lay down infrastructure.
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‘We’re not going to learn anything by sending some people there to do nothing again and waste a lot of money.
“Getting people on the moon by 2024 is hampering our ability to have a base there by the end of this decade.”
Mr Wanjek stressed the importance of commercial opportunities in promoting human space development.
Several companies, including Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, are currently developing vehicles for space tourism under the revolution.
Elon Musk wants to help establish a human colony on Mars (Image: GETTY)
According to science, author mining can also play a key role, with iron and silicon deposits on the moon, as well as water that can be broken down to provide oxygen and hydrogen.
He says: ‘The money makers will be mining, if it is feasible, and tourism which is probably more feasible than mining.
‘Everything works in parallel. You are introducing more people into space by sending people into a low Earth orbit to perhaps go to an expandable space hotel.
“As more and more people get involved, the cost will surely go down, and that means even more people can get up there.”