What do you think mankind will have achieved in space exploration and travel in 500 years?

slow as we are going now not far,, we should be on moon and other places we can not if they go slow ,,i to hope on day i can see the earth from the out side,,

haha brother we wont even be here in 500.

that's my word!

i agree! we have atleast 5 or maybe even 10 more years at the most. open your eyes

I think the goal of space exploration over the next 500 years in my opinion should be to colonize the solar system. Start with the planets that can most easily support life or can most easily be transformed into habitable planets with plants and other developed transforming machines. There are over 80 moons in our solar system along with the planets. Humankind's future is truly in the stars.

It's very hard to say. Many science fiction writers from the 1950s and 60s were predicting that space travel would be commonplace by now. Even though that has not happened, technology has progressed in ways that were rarely predicted. In most cases it has progressed faster than anyone imagined.

That tells me that "where there is a will, there is a way". Sending men to the moon was inspired by rivalry between the Soviets and the US. Perhaps when China starts sending people to the moon, other nations such as the US will kick their manned space programs up a gear.

Will we have sent people to the nearest stars in 500 years time? Arthur C Clarke didn't think it would have happened in a 1000 years from now and some scientists even think it will never happen. I personally think this is a narrow-minded view and that if humanity continues its technological progress, there's every chance that we will one day visit the stars. I suppose how long it takes depends on us discovering and mastering technologies that will make it truly feasible.

In 500 years, I would imagine that we would have colonies throughout the solar system at least.

Of course, we'd better start taking better care of our planet and reducing our populations if we're to survive long into the future!

Unless we can tear ourselves away from Earth and learn to build atmospheres and restaurants on the 165+ moons in our own Milky Way Galaxy, then we are all doomed. Most people don't understand that besides greenhouse gases causing global warming, aerobic respiration produces water vapor and CO2. This means that the more people work and exercise, the more fuel (food) they burn and the more water and CO2 they add to the atmosphere. So the sea levels are rising, flooding is catastrophic and all 17,000 islands will go under water someday.

Combustion:
Propane C3H8 + 5 O2 --> 3 CO2 + 4 H2O

Aerobic Respiration:
C6H12O6 + oxygen --> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy

We have to begin hauling water to all the 165+ moons. Write to your Space Agency and get as many signatures on petitions to haul water, soil, grass and trees. NASA is wasting billions of $ looking for water when it's constantly being made here on Earth...

Ofcourse there are many achievements indeed in space exploration. But Many more achievements have yet to be explored. No doubt about it.

We must keep the following things in our minds whenever we probe such questions

1). Span of Human(Mankind ) Life
2). Dimensions of Space.

NASA, other Space Explorers are doing their efforts to know more about space. Let them do and we must wish them all the best.

B Positive.

We misused the terrestrial supply of fossil energy by exuberant (i.e., stupidly self-gratifying) living. We might as well have been yeast in a petri dish, or an algae scum in a pond, for all the sense we displayed in our use of the world's petroleum deposits. Now those supplies have peaked and will start to diminish, slowly but steadily, and the stupidity that has made it merely politically difficult to colonize space will now make it politically impossible to do so.

If liberals were decrying the (relatively meager) funds used on the space program when fossil fuels were abundant and cheap, and asking subversive questions, such as "Why are we pumping money into outer space when there are hungry people right here on Earth?" then imagine the leverage that their sort of talk will have gained as the die-off approaches.

Our opportunity is gone. The window has closed. The solar system has failed to produce an interplanetary species.

there will be foot ball match between the teams from earth and several space stations. And the stadium will be moon :-)