NASA wants people on Mars within 25 years

AFP / BATTLE FOR WORLD – November 13, 2018: The article highlights that the US space agency believes it can put humans on the Red Planet within 25 years, but the technological and medical hurdles are immense.

The cost of solving those means that under current budgets, or slightly expanded budgets, it’s going to take about 25 years to solve those,” said former NASA astronaut Tom Jones, who flew on four space shuttle missions before retiring in 2001.

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“We need to get started now on certain key technologies,” he emphasized to reporters in Washington.

At an average distance of about 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away from planet Earth, Mars poses scientific problems an order of magnitude greater than anything encountered by the Apollo lunar missions.

The former NASA astronaut said that: With today’s rocket technology, it would take an astronaut up to nine months to reach Mars — the physical toll of floating that long in zero gravity would be huge. And calls for nuclear propulsion systems that would have the added benefit of producing electricity on flights.

“If we start now, in 25 years we might have these technologies available to help us and protect us from these long transit times,” he said at the news conference.

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