@NASA : We're Sending Humans to Mars!

[Julius Skrrvin]

http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasas-journey-to-mars/#.VH3mFzGG9Jk

NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s – goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in 2010.

Mars is a rich destination for scientific discovery and robotic and human exploration as we expand our presence into the solar system. Its formation and evolution are comparable to Earth, helping us learn more about our own planet’s history and future. Mars had conditions suitable for life in its past. Future exploration could uncover evidence of life, answering one of the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos: Does life exist beyond Earth?

While robotic explorers have studied Mars for more than 40 years, NASA’s path for the human exploration of Mars begins in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station. Astronauts on the orbiting laboratory are helping us prove many of the technologies and communications systems needed for human missions to deep space, including Mars. The space station also advances our understanding of how the body changes in space and how to protect astronaut health.

Our next step is deep space, where NASA will send a robotic mission to capture and redirect an asteroid to orbit the moon. Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will explore the asteroid in the 2020s, returning to Earth with samples. This experience in human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit will help NASA test new systems and capabilities, such as Solar Electric Propulsion, which we’ll need to send cargo as part of human missions to Mars. Beginning in FY 2018, NASA’s powerful Space Launch System rocket will enable these “proving ground” missions to test new capabilities. Human missions to Mars will rely on Orion and an evolved version of SLS that will be the most powerful launch vehicle ever flown.

A fleet of robotic spacecraft and rovers already are on and around Mars, dramatically increasing our knowledge about the Red Planet and paving the way for future human explorers. The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover measured radiation on the way to Mars and is sending back radiation data from the surface. This data will help us plan how to protect the astronauts who will explore Mars. Future missions like the Mars 2020 rover, seeking signs of past life, also will demonstrate new technologies that could help astronauts survive on Mars.

Engineers and scientists around the country are working hard to develop the technologies astronauts will use to one day live and work on Mars, and safely return home from the next giant leap for humanity. NASA also is a leader in a Global Exploration Roadmap, working with international partners and the U.S. commercial space industry on a coordinated expansion of human presence into the solar system, with human missions to the surface of Mars as the driving goal. Follow our progress atwww.nasa.gov/exploration and www.nasa.gov/mars.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

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[newarkhiphop]

This won't end well

 

[Mowgli]

*lands on mars*

OMG IM ON fukkING MARS. ANOTHER GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.

*looks around*

so uh when are we leaving.

 

[Blackking]

This is cool,

I'm not sure what's actually exciting about it though

NTM, 2 trips to mars = upgrade to every majority black high school in America and updated urban early childhood education.


All to see what's gonna happen to earth if we lose our ozone -- that's what happened to mars. Looks like shyt and we can't survive there without things we've gathered from Earth.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

This is cool,

I'm not sure what's actually exciting about it though

NTM, 2 trips to mars = upgrade to every majority black high school in America and updated urban early childhood education.


All to see what's gonna happen to earth if we lose our ozone -- that's what happened to mars. Looks like shyt and we can't survive there without things we've gathered from Earth.

U stole the words off my fingertips

They can send people to Mars but they cant fix the ghetto They can send people to Mars but they cant repair our infrastructure They can send people to Mars but they cant balance the budget They can send people to Mars but they can't make a single payer program Why dont we fix our problems here before we go to Mars

 

[Fart Knocker]

This is cool,

I'm not sure what's actually exciting about it though

NTM, 2 trips to mars = upgrade to every majority black high school in America and updated urban early childhood education.


All to see what's gonna happen to earth if we lose our ozone -- that's what happened to mars. Looks like shyt and we can't survive there without things we've gathered from Earth.

U stole the words off my fingertips

They can send people to Mars but they cant fix the ghetto They can send people to Mars but they cant repair our infrastructure They can send people to Mars but they cant balance the budget They can send people to Mars but they can't make a single payer program Why dont we fix our problems here before we go to Mars

Its hard to keep the poor and minorities oppressed when you are spending Mars money to better their communities...

 

[Leasy]

I bet you they land in Cydonia. Bet a thousand.

 

[hayesc0]

I dont think this is possible how do you solve the issue of radiation exposure.

 

[Blackking]

I bet you they land in Cydonia. Bet a thousand.

you must live in a demon haunted world breh.

 

[the cac mamba]

"but they put man on the moon, and n*ggas eatin dinner outta dumpsters"

 

[JahFocus CS]

As much as I am fascinated by space exploration, visiting new worlds, etc., we've got plenty of issues right here on Earth that need to be solved... I hope that one day we are able to solve the social contradictions we face so that we can put our energy into endeavors like this.

 

[TheGodling]

Soon.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

 

[Leasy]

you must live in a demon haunted world breh.