EUROPE: NASA’s goal for Mars is to have human missions there by the 2030s. It will require performance research, testing technologies and advancing human health to enable deep space, long duration missions.
The space agency revealed its plans reach the Red Planet in a 36-page report released last week, entitled NASA’s Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration.
“NASA is closer to sending American astronauts to Mars than at any point in our history,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a statement.
Accomplishing this goal will require three stages. The first is continuing its ongoing research aboard the International Space Station, which studies the effects of living in space for long periods of time, and furthering the development of its most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The next step will involve crews conducting operations in deep space environments near the moon, which it calls its Proving Ground stage.
The third “Earth Independent” stage involves enabling human missions to low-Mars orbit or on one of the Martian moons, before eventually landing on the Martian surface.
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