NASA on Track for Human Mission to Mars in Around 20 Years
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is planning to send a human to land on planet Mars in about 20 years. In order to get the first astronaut to Mars, NASA officials want to use an asteroid as a midway landing point for astronauts that are heading to our neighboring red planet.
NASA is planning to send humans to land on planet Mars in about 20 years.
In order to get the first astronauts to Mars, NASA officials want to use an asteroid as a midway landing point on the way to our neighboring red planet.
Politicians from a United States House of Representatives subcommittee have approved a bill proposing the plan to redirect an asteroid into the moon’s orbit and use it as a weigh station and testing outpost on the way to Mars.
Representative Donna Edwards, a member of the subcommittee and co-sponsor of the authorization bill is quoted as saying: “I know that different members have their own personal favorite destinations and interim missions. But this measure puts the job of deciding the pathway forward where it belongs by requiring NASA to develop an informed and realistic roadmap to get this nation to Mars.”
Some politicians think that a human mission to Mars is not worth the billions of dollars that it will cost the American taxpayers, and House Republicans are reportedly interested in more moon landings rather than sending the first manned mission to Mars.
NASA is planning to send humans to land on planet Mars in about 20 years.
In order to get the first astronauts to Mars, NASA officials want to use an asteroid as a midway landing point on the way to our neighboring red planet.
Politicians from a United States House of Representatives subcommittee have approved a bill proposing the plan to redirect an asteroid into the moon’s orbit and use it as a weigh station and testing outpost on the way to Mars.
Representative Donna Edwards, a member of the subcommittee and co-sponsor of the authorization bill is quoted as saying: “I know that different members have their own personal favorite destinations and interim missions. But this measure puts the job of deciding the pathway forward where it belongs by requiring NASA to develop an informed and realistic roadmap to get this nation to Mars.”
Some politicians think that a human mission to Mars is not worth the billions of dollars that it will cost the American taxpayers, and House Republicans are reportedly interested in more moon landings rather than sending the first manned mission to Mars.
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