BRENT: NASA’s main long-term spaceflight goal is to land human astronauts on Mars. What steps is the space agency taking to get there?
NASA wants the world to know that putting boots on Mars is not just a sci-fi dream.
The space agency has been helping promote the new film “The Martian,” which hits theaters across the United States today (Oct. 2), as a way to publicize its own plans to send astronauts to the Red Planet in the 2030s.
Setting up a crewed outpost on Mars is NASA’s chief long-term goal in the realm of human spaceflight. Indeed, the space agency’s operational robotic Mars craft — the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers, and the orbiters Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) — can be seen as scouts for the human pioneers to come, NASA officials say.
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